Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
NMC review panel strikes off nurse Violetta Hajjar over medication record failings
An NMC review panel has replaced nurse Violetta Hajjar's suspension with a striking-off order, finding she had not engaged with the regulator or shown insight since being found to have failed to administer medication and signed a record stating she had.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 29 June 2026 · Updated 9 July 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 Violetta Hajjar, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 95B0087O).
Decision date: 29 June 2026 · Hearing started 29 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided to strike nurse Violetta Hajjar off the register at a review hearing on 29 June 2026. She had been suspended since July 2025 after the NMC found she failed to give a resident prescribed medication and signed the medication record as if she had. The panel found she had not engaged with the NMC or shown insight during two six-month suspensions, and the striking-off order takes effect on 4 August 2026.
Charges
The charges found proved at the original substantive hearing were that, on 11 May 2019, she failed to administer prescribed medication to Resident B and signed Resident B's Medication Administration Record (MAR chart) to indicate that she had administered prescribed medication when she had not.
Findings
This was the second review of a 6-month substantive suspension order originally imposed on 4 July 2025 and extended for a further 6 months on 28 January 2026. The panel found Ms Hajjar's fitness to practise remains impaired on the grounds of public protection and the wider public interest, noting no engagement with the regulatory process, no evidence of insight, reflection, remediation or strengthened practice across two consecutive six-month periods of suspension. The panel concluded that a further suspension order would serve no meaningful purpose and decided to replace the suspension order with a striking-off order, which takes effect upon the expiry of the current suspension order at the end of 4 August 2026 in accordance with Article 30(1) of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001.
Source
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