Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing

Erasure (struck off the register)

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Concerning Victoria Louise Huzzard, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 14E1980E).

Decision date: 7 August 2026 · Hearing started 5 August 2026 and ended 7 August 2026

In plain English

The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Victoria Louise Huzzard made medication administration and record-keeping errors at two care homes in March and April 2022, and that she dishonestly signed a colleague's name in the controlled drugs and destruction books to suggest the colleague had witnessed her. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired by misconduct and struck her off the register. An interim suspension order of 18 months covers the appeal period.

Charges

That on 23 March 2022 at Holly Tree Lodge Care Home she administered 10mg of Zomorph to Resident A instead of the prescribed 20mg and recorded that she had administered 20mg when she had not; and did not administer or did not sign the MAR chart for medications for Residents B, C, D and E, and did not sign the controlled drugs book for a buprenorphine patch for Resident F. That on 1 April 2022 at Eaton Court Care Home, in relation to Resident G, she did not administer, count or dispose of pregabalin in the presence of a witness, and signed as Colleague A in the destroyed book and the controlled drugs book indicating that Colleague A had witnessed the disposal and administration. That her conduct in signing as Colleague A was dishonest in that she deliberately sought to represent that Colleague A had witnessed her when she knew they had not. All charges were found proved.

Findings

The panel found all charges proved on the balance of probabilities. It found that Ms Huzzard's actions included errors in medication administration and record keeping which are fundamental to nursing practice, in a care home caring for vulnerable residents, and that inaccurate recording of controlled drugs can give rise to the risk of serious harm. Applying Ivey v Genting Casinos, the panel found she had forged Ms Garrard's signature to conceal that she had administered and destroyed controlled drugs without a witness, and that although this took place during a single shift it was deliberate and calculated because she returned later in the shift to forge the signatures. The panel found the facts amounted to misconduct, that Ms Huzzard has minimal insight and has not remediated or strengthened her practice, and that her fitness to practise is currently impaired on the grounds of both public protection and public interest. It imposed a striking-off order, together with an interim suspension order for 18 months to cover the 28-day appeal period.

Mitigating factors

No direct harm caused to the residents; a limited reflective account for one of the incidents.

Aggravating factors

An 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; repetition of dishonesty; minimal insight; vulnerability of residents in the care home; element of premeditation in her dishonesty; failure to attend hearings, or to engage in the Fitness to Practise process, without good reason.

Source

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