Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Belinda Kay for falsifying patient records
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has struck advanced nurse practitioner Belinda Jayne Kay off its register after a panel found she dishonestly recorded examinations, a child's observations and a DNACPR discussion that never took place.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 6 May 2026 · Updated 11 July 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Belinda Jayne Kay, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 98J0019E).
Decision date: 6 May 2026 · Hearing started 20 April 2026 and ended 6 May 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Belinda Jayne Kay dishonestly recorded abdominal examinations, a child's observations, and a DNACPR conversation with a patient's relative that had not taken place, while working as an advanced nurse practitioner at a GP practice. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and directed that she be struck off the register, imposing an 18-month interim suspension order.
Charges
That between around July 2019 and October 2022, while working as an advanced nurse practitioner at a GP practice, Mrs Kay: copied and pasted notes from patient consultations into unrelated patient records; did not conduct abdominal examinations on patients J and K on 20 September 2022 while recording that she had; added a consultation to the wrong patient's record; recorded on a DNACPR form and a consultation sheet that she had a conversation with a relative about a DNACPR order for patient P; recorded observations (temperature, respiratory rate, oxygen levels, heart rate) for child A that she had not conducted; said to a patient words to the effect of "there's nothing wrong with it, stop being a fanny"; used inappropriate language about colleagues and shouted at and pointed at a colleague; and recorded "chest examination normal" without conducting a chest examination. Several charges alleged the record entries were dishonest.
Findings
Charges 1, 3, 5a, 10a and 11 were proved by admission; charges 2a, 2b, 6a, 6b, 8a-d, 9, 10b, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 19 were found proved, including that Mrs Kay acted dishonestly in recording a DNACPR conversation that never took place, observations on a child she had not conducted, and abdominal examinations on two patients that were not carried out. Charges 4, 5b, 7, 12 and 15 were found not proved. The panel found serious professional misconduct and current impairment on both public protection and public interest grounds, and imposed a striking-off order with an interim suspension order for 18 months to cover the appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Some early admissions of the facts; some developing insight; expressed remorse; personal mitigation (heard in private) and a toxic work environment; positive character references provided; relevant training courses undertaken
Aggravating factors
Dishonest conduct; abuse of a position of trust; conduct which put people receiving care at an unwarranted risk of suffering harm; deliberate breaches of the Code; pattern of misconduct involving more than one patient, occurring over a period of time; emotional harm caused to patients and relatives; deep-seated attitudinal concerns
Source
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