Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
NMC review panel strikes off nurse Joy Harradine over failings after patient's fall
A Nursing and Midwifery Council review panel has directed that mental health nurse Joy Harradine be struck off the register when her suspension expires in July 2026, finding she showed no insight into failings in her care of a vulnerable patient who fell.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 18 June 2026 · Updated 9 July 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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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 Joy Harradine, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 09B0637E).
Decision date: 18 June 2026 · Hearing started 18 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided at a review hearing on 18 June 2026 that mental health nurse Joy Harradine remains impaired and directed that she be struck off the register when her current suspension expires on 15 July 2026. The original panel found she failed to check a patient for injury after an unwitnessed fall, kept poor records, and did not intervene when staff handled and spoke to the patient inappropriately. The review panel found no evidence of insight or strengthened practice.
Charges
The charges found proved by admission at the original hearing were that on 18 March 2023, following Patient A's unwitnessed fall, Mrs Harradine failed to respond appropriately in that she did not check Patient A for any injury or seek medical advice; demonstrated poor record keeping in that she did not complete observations, neurological observations, or documentation, and did not follow the Falls Policy by completing a falls report, accident form or daily notes; and failed to safeguard Patient A in that she did not intervene when staff hoisted Patient A using inaccurate techniques, when Patient A was in pain during the hoisting procedure, when Patient A was not covered, and when staff behaved and spoke inappropriately towards Patient A.
Findings
At this first review of a 12-month substantive suspension order, the panel found that Mrs Harradine's fitness to practise remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, noting no evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice since the original hearing. It concluded that no further action, a caution order, a conditions of practice order or a further suspension order would be appropriate, and that lapse with impairment was not available because a risk of harm remained and the case involved a vulnerable adult. The panel directed the registrar to strike Mrs Harradine's name off the register, the striking-off order to take effect upon expiry of the current suspension order at the end of 15 July 2026 in accordance with Article 30(1).
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