Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
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 Elizabeth Elaine Greenhill, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 79Y0358S).
Decision date: 6 February 2026 · Hearing started 24 March 2025 and ended 6 February 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Elizabeth Elaine Greenhill, a registered mental health nurse from Leeds, on 6 February 2026. The committee found charges of misconduct proved, including racially discriminatory conduct towards a colleague at a care home in 2019. The panel found no mitigating features and determined that the discriminatory behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with Ms Greenhill remaining on the register.
Charges
Between 5 August and 30 September 2019, at a care home: took unallocated breaks and did not inform colleagues of her whereabouts; failed to respond to call bells without clinical justification; was rude and abrupt towards a resident's family member; used an aggressive and hostile tone with a resident; on unknown dates spoke to a colleague in a rude and unprofessional manner, making comments including 'you don't know how to speak English, you don't understand what a blanket is' and 'you are a danger as you do not know how to speak English'. The conduct towards the colleague was found to constitute racial discrimination.
Findings
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found multiple charges of misconduct proved, including racial discrimination against a colleague. The panel determined that Ms Greenhill's misconduct, particularly her racially discriminatory behaviour, was fundamentally incompatible with her remaining on the register. The panel found no mitigating features and imposed a striking-off order. An interim suspension order for 18 months was imposed pending the expiry of the appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Aggravating factors
• Ms Greenhill's deliberate breaches of the Code • Ms Greenhill's lack of insight • Ms Greenhill's failure to work collaboratively with colleagues • Ms Greenhill's discriminatory behaviour on the grounds of race • Ms Greenhill abused her position of trust • Ms Greenhill's misconduct relates to vulnerable residents in a care home setting
Source
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