Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
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 Jerry Barrozo, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 02B1770O).
Decision date: 23 March 2026 · Hearing started 23 March 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Jerry Barrozo, a registered adult nurse from St Martin, Guernsey, on 23 March 2026. The panel found that he had failed to cooperate with a criminal investigation into alleged theft of medication and medical supplies from his workplace, having failed to surrender to police custody on 4 September 2024 in accordance with his bail conditions and having left his home for an unknown whereabouts on or about 12 July 2024. The panel concluded the misconduct involved an abuse of trust and that no lesser sanction would protect the public. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
Charges
That, as a registered nurse, Mr Barrozo failed to cooperate with a criminal investigation into allegations of theft of medication and other medical supplies from his workplace in that, on 4 September 2024, he did not surrender himself to custody at Guernsey Police Headquarters at 10:00am in accordance with his bail conditions, and on or about 12 July 2024 he left his home in Guernsey to an unknown whereabouts. Charges 1a and 1b proved.
Findings
The panel found Mr Barrozo's fitness to practise impaired by reason of his misconduct. The panel concluded the conduct involved an abuse of his position of trust, deliberate breaches of the Code, and a pattern of misconduct over a period of time, and that no lesser sanction would protect the public or maintain confidence in the profession given the seriousness of the misconduct and his disengagement.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
No reported patient harm.
Aggravating factors
Abuse of a position of trust. Conduct which deliberately or recklessly puts people receiving care at risk of suffering harm. Deliberate breaches of the Code. A pattern of misconduct over a period of time.
Source
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