Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel suspends nurse Laura McGuigan for one month after private hearing
The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Committee has suspended mental health nurse Laura Elaine McGuigan for one month, finding her fitness to practise impaired. The hearing was held entirely in private under Rule 19, so the charges are not published.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 17 July 2026 · Updated 23 July 2026
Suspension (suspended from practice) — 1 month
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A suspension is a fixed-term pause on the right to practise. The practitioner cannot work in the regulated profession during the suspension. At the end of the period the suspension may be extended, replaced with another sanction, or lifted on review.
Concerning Laura Elaine McGuigan, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 20I0177N).
Decision date: 17 July 2026 · Hearing started 16 July 2026 and ended 17 July 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Laura Elaine McGuigan, a registered mental health nurse, had charges 1a and 1b proved against her and that her fitness to practise is impaired. The committee imposed a suspension order for one month and made no interim order. The NMC recorded the type of case as a caution. The hearing was held entirely in private under Rule 19, so the details of the charges and the panel's reasons are not in the public record.
Charges
The details of the charges are not in the public record. An application under Rule 19 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004 to hear all matters in private was accepted, so the substantive content of this hearing was not heard in public. The published cover page records the type of case as a caution and that charges 1a and 1b were found proved.
Findings
The panel found charges 1a and 1b proved, found Ms McGuigan's fitness to practise impaired, imposed a suspension order for one month and made no interim order. The panel's reasons on facts, impairment and sanction were heard in private under Rule 19 and are not in the public record.
Source
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