UK healthcare practitioners practising with restrictions
Conditions of practice allow the practitioner to keep working but only subject to specific restrictions, such as supervision, limits on certain procedures, or required reporting to the regulator.
- 21 April 2026 · Nursing and Midwifery Council · NursePractising with restrictions · 1 year
The NMC found that Sara Morrissey, a registered nurse, did not switch on a vulnerable patient's ventilator while moving them to a chair in July 2020. The patient's lips turned blue before staff noticed and turned the machine on. Mrs Morrissey did not record the incident or hand it over to the next nurse. The panel decided her fitness to practise is impaired and imposed a 12-month conditions of practice order, including supervised retraining.
- 7 April 2026 · Nursing and Midwifery Council · NursePractising with restrictions · 1 year
The NMC found that Deborah Povall, a registered nurse and ward manager between 2017 and 2019, worked excessive hours, did not ensure adequate staffing, declined to help a colleague care for a patient with a bypassed catheter, did not arrange a bladder scan or escalate a low blood test result, and was unprofessional towards a colleague. The panel decided her fitness to practise is impaired and imposed a 12-month conditions of practice order.
- 2 April 2026 · Nursing and Midwifery Council · NursePractising with restrictions · 6 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review hearing on 2 April 2026 that Miss Marie Louise Fiske, a registered mental health nurse, remained impaired and replaced her existing 6-month suspension with a 6-month conditions of practice order. She was originally suspended in September 2025 after the panel found she had attempted to kick a vulnerable mental health patient in crisis on the ward. The review panel concluded that conditions of practice would provide a more realistic route to safe return given her engagement and remediation.
- 2 April 2026 · Nursing and Midwifery Council · NursePractising with restrictions · 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review hearing on 2 April 2026 that Miss Stacey Jessica Nurrish, a registered adult nurse, remained impaired but replaced her existing suspension with a 12-month conditions of practice order. She had originally been suspended in February 2024 for misconduct including working bank shifts while on sick leave at another trust, dishonesty, working excessively, and declaring a negative COVID-19 test she had not taken. A previous review imposed striking-off but the High Court overturned that on appeal in February 2026; this review found conditions of practice the appropriate sanction.