Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Alison Marshall after medication theft conviction
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has struck off nurse Alison Jayne Marshall following her conviction for stealing medication from Antrim Hospital, where CCTV captured her removing tablets from a medicine cupboard on 12 occasions in the space of eight days.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 19 May 2026 · Updated 10 July 2026
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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 Alison Jayne Marshall, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 95D0085N).
Decision date: 19 May 2026 · Hearing started 19 May 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Alison Jayne Marshall's fitness to practise was impaired after her conviction for stealing medication from the hospital where she worked. She was captured on CCTV removing medication on 12 occasions over eight days and pleaded guilty at Antrim Magistrates' Court. Finding no evidence of insight or remediation, the panel imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension pending any appeal.
Charges
That she was convicted on 24 September 2024 at the Magistrates' Court of stealing medication of unknown value belonging to Northern Health and Social Care Trust on dates between 11 and 18 September 2023, contrary to Section 1 of the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969. Found proved by way of the certificate of conviction.
Findings
The facts were proved by the certificate of conviction under Rule 31(2) and (3). The panel found the repeated dishonest removal of medication very serious: Mrs Marshall was captured on CCTV removing individual tablets or strips of medication from the medicine cupboard on 12 occasions in the space of eight days while on duty at Antrim Hospital. There was no evidence any patient was deprived of medication or harmed, so impairment was not required on public protection grounds, but with no insight, remediation or meaningful engagement, and a risk of repetition, fitness to practise was found impaired on public interest grounds. She was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Full admission by way of a guilty plea at the first court appearance.
Aggravating factors
The conviction involved repeated acts of theft over a period of eight days; abuse of a position of trust; the medication stolen was intended for patient use; the conduct took place while Mrs Marshall was on duty; the conduct was initially denied; no evidence of insight or remediation.
Source
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