Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Kim Edmans over Class A drug premises conviction
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has struck adult nurse Kim Tracy Edmans off the register after she was convicted of permitting premises she occupied to be used for supplying psilocybin. The panel said she had not engaged with its proceedings and had shown no insight.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 12 August 2026 · Updated 18 August 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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What does “struck off the register” mean?
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 Kim Tracy Edmans, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 84E0973E).
Decision date: 12 August 2026 · Hearing started 12 August 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that adult nurse Kim Tracy Edmans's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of her conviction. In May 2025 she pleaded guilty to permitting premises she occupied to be used for supplying psilocybin, a Class A drug, in an operation run by her son. She received a suspended prison sentence. The panel said she had not engaged with its proceedings and had shown no insight, and it made a striking-off order with an 18-month interim suspension.
Charges
That you, a registered nurse: 1. On 6 May 2025 were convicted of permitting the use of premises for supplying Class A drugs, contrary to section 8(b) of and Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, AND in light of the above, your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of your conviction. The case was categorised as a conviction case.
Findings
The panel found the charge proved on the basis of the certificate of conviction, which under Rule 31(2) is conclusive proof. Mrs Edmans was convicted at Plymouth Crown Court on 6 May 2025 of permitting premises she occupied to be used for the supply of Psilocybin, a Class A controlled drug, between March 2020 and August 2023. The sentencing remarks record that the supply operation was being undertaken by her son, that she knew what he was doing and had taken some of the material to the post box. She pleaded guilty on the day of trial and on 22 August 2025 received 20 months' imprisonment suspended for two years, with two years' supervision and 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days. The panel found limbs (b) and (c) of the Grant test engaged, did not find limb (a) engaged as no patients were involved, and determined that her fitness to practise was currently impaired on public interest grounds.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The panel took into account the following mitigating feature: Mrs Edmans pleaded guilty to the offence, albeit on the day of trial. The panel noted that the guilty plea had attracted limited credit because of the stage at which it was entered.
Aggravating factors
The panel took into account the following aggravating features: the seriousness of the criminal conviction, which concerned a Class A controlled drug; Mrs Edmans' failure to engage with the NMC fitness to practise process; and the absence of evidence of insight, reflection or remorse.
Source
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