Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
Practising with restrictions — 1 year
The regulator’s term: conditions on practice
What does “practising with restrictions” mean?
Conditions of practice allow the practitioner to keep working but only subject to specific restrictions — for example, supervision, limits on certain procedures, or required reporting to the regulator.
Concerning Miss Stacey Jessica Nurrish, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 15K2403E).
Decision date: 2 April 2026 · Hearing started 2 April 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review hearing on 2 April 2026 that Miss Stacey Jessica Nurrish, a registered adult nurse, remained impaired but replaced her existing suspension with a 12-month conditions of practice order. She had originally been suspended in February 2024 for misconduct including working bank shifts while on sick leave at another trust, dishonesty, working excessively, and declaring a negative COVID-19 test she had not taken. A previous review imposed striking-off but the High Court overturned that on appeal in February 2026; this review found conditions of practice the appropriate sanction.
Charges
Miss Nurrish was charged with: working bank shifts for one NHS trust between December 2019 and April 2020 while on sick leave from another, and acting dishonestly by misleading colleagues about her fitness to carry out nursing duties; working excessively in that she worked a 22:00-08:00 night shift then an 08:00-16:00 day shift on 1-2 July 2020; declining a call to attend a patient who required medication and dishonestly stating she was attending another patient; failing to keep accurate records and breaching the duty of candour; and on or around 15 September 2020 declaring a negative COVID-19 test result when she had not taken a test, dishonestly misleading others about her ability to work.
Findings
All charges were proved by admission at the original substantive hearing on 6 February 2024, which imposed a 12-month suspension. A review on 21 January 2025 replaced the suspension with a striking-off order. Miss Nurrish appealed to the High Court, which allowed her appeal on 2 February 2026, remitted the case for review and ordered the original suspension order to continue. At this remitted review on 2 April 2026, the panel decided to replace the suspension with a 12-month conditions of practice order, finding the case suitable for a structured, supervised return to practice.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The original panel acknowledged the difficult personal circumstances Miss Nurrish was experiencing at the time the misconduct arose. The High Court overturned the previous striking-off order, suggesting that erasure was not a proportionate response.
Aggravating factors
The conduct included multiple instances of dishonesty, working while on sick leave, declining to attend a patient who required medication, and a false COVID-19 test declaration. The original panel found that her conduct put patients at unwarranted risk of harm and breached fundamental tenets of the profession.
Source
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