NurseNursing and Midwifery Council 19B1394E
Helen McLaughlan
Helen McLaughlan, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 19B1394E). Most recent decision: Struck off the register (the regulator’s term: erasure) on 4 February 2026 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Current status
Most recent outcome: Struck off the register (the regulator’s term: erasure), decided 4 February 2026 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
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.
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Decisions and hearings
Nursing and Midwifery Councilsubstantive hearing
Struck off the register
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Helen McLaughlan, a nurse at Wexham Park Hospital, dispensed medication from the hospital's automated system on numerous occasions without clinical justification between November 2020 and April 2021, taking it for personal use. The panel found this conduct dishonest and fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register, and imposed a striking-off order.
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