Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
NMC extends Rebecca Jade Howard's conditions over medication and observation failings
An NMC panel extended Rebecca Jade Howard's conditions of practice for 12 months after finding that she remained impaired and had not yet demonstrated strengthened practice.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 7 May 2026 · Updated 23 September 2026
Conditions on practice (practising with restrictions) — 1 year
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Concerning Rebecca Jade Howard, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 20I1107E).
Decision date: 7 May 2026 · Hearing started 7 May 2026
In plain English
The NMC found that Rebecca Jade Howard remained impaired because she had not yet been able to demonstrate compliance with her conditions or strengthened practice while out of nursing work. The panel extended her conditions of practice order for 12 months, from 12 June 2026, to protect the public and allow her time to return to practice under restrictions.
Charges
The charges admitted at the 2025 substantive decision concerned medication and observation failures involving four patients. They included providing one patient's medication for another patient, failures to record and escalate observations, not securing medication, and administering one patient's folic acid tablet to another patient.
Findings
The reviewing panel found that Rebecca Jade Howard remained impaired. It had very limited new information, she was not currently working and therefore had been unable to demonstrate compliance with the conditions or strengthened practice. The panel found that the risk of repetition and risk to the public remained, and extended the existing conditions of practice order for 12 months from 12 June 2026.
Source
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