Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review 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 Elzabeth Lennon, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 97D0010E).
Decision date: 23 March 2026 · Hearing started 23 March 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee directed a striking-off order against Elzabeth Lennon, a registered children's nurse from Northampton, on 23 March 2026 at a substantive order review hearing. She had been suspended for six months over events on 16 March 2022 involving the care of a baby, including failing to check the cannula site, failing to investigate or escalate Alaris infusion pump alarms, inappropriately raising pump pressure, and dishonestly recording observations and reporting normal pressure readings to a doctor. The panel concluded she had not engaged with the regulatory process or shown remediation, and the striking-off order will take effect on 23 April 2026.
Charges
The original charges proved at the substantive hearing concerned events on 16 March 2022 in the care of Baby A: that Mrs Lennon failed to conduct regular hourly checks of Baby A's cannula site, failed to investigate the reason for the Alaris pump alarming, failed to escalate the repeated alarming of the pump, and inappropriately raised the pressure level of the pump. She failed to accurately record the care provided to Baby A, the alarming of the pump, and her actions in response. She incorrectly recorded observation of the cannula site and pressure readings, and her records of those observations were dishonest. She also incorrectly told Doctor A that Baby A's pump pressure readings had been normal during the day, which was dishonest.
Findings
The panel found Mrs Lennon's fitness to practise remains impaired. Mrs Lennon had not engaged with the regulatory process at this review and had provided no evidence of insight, remediation, or strengthened practice. The panel concluded a continuing finding of impairment was required on both public protection and public interest grounds, and that a striking-off order was the only sanction that would adequately protect the public, given her ongoing disengagement and the seriousness of the original conduct, which had resulted in physical harm to a vulnerable infant.
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