Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Gabrielle Prettyman over care home management failings
A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel has struck off Gabrielle Jean Prettyman, finding widespread failures in care planning, wound management and nutrition monitoring at the Norfolk care home she managed, and a failure to act on concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 8 July 2026 · Updated 18 July 2026
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Concerning Gabrielle Jean Prettyman, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 82F0302E).
Decision date: 8 July 2026 · Hearing started 21 July 2025 and ended 8 July 2026
In plain English
The NMC found that Gabrielle Jean Prettyman, a registered nurse and registered manager of Lound Hall Care Home in Norfolk, failed to ensure adequate care planning, wound management, nutrition monitoring and record keeping for multiple residents in 2016 and 2017, and failed to act on concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
Charges
As Registered Manager of Lound Hall Care Home, charged with failures in relation to multiple residents, including: failing to ensure repositioning records, wound care plans, wound assessments and body maps were in place; failing to ensure dietetic referrals or GP reviews following weight loss; failing to ensure care plans for pressure areas, nutrition, choking risk, continence, communication and personal hygiene; failing to ensure fluid intake was monitored and recorded; failing to ensure pressure mattresses were checked and audited; failing to ensure call bells were answered promptly; failing to notify the CQC of a grade 4 pressure ulcer; and failing to act on concerns raised by the CQC and the Clinical Commissioning Group between 1 January 2017 and 8 January 2018.
Findings
The panel found the majority of charges proved, including widespread failures of care planning, wound management, weight and nutrition monitoring, fluid intake recording and record keeping across numerous residents, failure to notify the CQC of a grade 4 pressure ulcer, and failure to act adequately or at all on concerns raised by the CQC and the CCG. The panel found no case to answer on charges 7, 9 and 11b, and found a small number of further charges not proved. It determined that the facts found proved amounted to misconduct and that Mrs Prettyman's fitness to practise is currently impaired. The recorded sanction is a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
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