Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel imposes conditions on nurse Lucyna Abramowicz over care home medication failings
The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Committee has placed a 12-month conditions of practice order on nurse Lucyna Abramowicz after finding she failed to give a care home resident's medication and recorded it as administered; dishonesty charges were not proved.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 22 June 2026 · Updated 8 July 2026
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Concerning Lucyna Abramowicz, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 09A0007C).
Decision date: 22 June 2026 · Hearing started 16 June 2026 and ended 22 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Lucyna Abramowicz, an adult nurse working at a care home in Ipswich, failed to administer a resident's medication, delegated it to a colleague who was not qualified to give it, and signed the MAR chart to say the medication had been given when it had not. Dishonesty charges were not proved. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a 12-month conditions of practice order.
Charges
That, as a registered nurse, on 7 July 2022 she failed to administer medications to Resident A, inappropriately delegated the administration of medication for Resident A to a colleague who was not qualified to administer medication on their own, and inaccurately signed the MAR chart to state she had administered the medication when she had not; and on 14 July 2022 incorrectly recorded and/or presigned the MAR Chart Signature Check Chart as completed at 1900 hours when she had finished her shift at 1200 hours. Charges that she failed to supervise the administration and that her actions were dishonest were found not proved.
Findings
The panel found charges 1a, 1b, 1d and 3 proved and charges 1c, 2 and 4 not proved, including both dishonesty charges. It found the proved conduct on 7 July 2022 amounted to misconduct that put Resident A at risk of harm, while the 14 July 2022 record-keeping entry was a genuine error made while distressed and did not amount to misconduct. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on public protection and public interest grounds, citing limited insight and no evidence of strengthened practice. It noted the NMC had sought a striking-off order on the basis of the unproved dishonesty allegations and determined that suspension or striking-off would be wholly disproportionate. It imposed a 12-month conditions of practice order with review, and an interim conditions of practice order for 12 months to cover any appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Admissions at local level and to the NMC in the early stages of the investigation; possible work factors in a busy environment and lack of support at the Home (an element was recorded privately).
Aggravating factors
Lack of engagement with the Fitness to Practise process; limited insight.
Source
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