Adria Pearce

Introduction

Adria Pearce is an adult nurse from Leicester who was struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register at a review meeting on 17 June 2026, when the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order taking effect on 31 July 2026. She was registered with the NMC under pin number 14H0087E. The striking-off followed proven charges that, while working as a registered nurse at Glenfield Hospital, she dishonestly took dihydrocodeine and codeine phosphate from a ward medication cupboard. The findings summarised here were made by a regulatory panel on the civil standard, not by a criminal court.

Background Information

Pearce worked as a registered nurse at Glenfield Hospital, where the charges against her arose. The charges relate to 30 April 2021, when she was found to have taken dihydrocodeine and codeine phosphate from the medication cupboard on a ward. What followed was a five-year regulatory arc with long gaps: the record states she had not engaged with the NMC since July 2022, a substantive hearing imposed a 12-month suspension order on 3 July 2025, and the first review of that order was heard and decided on 17 June 2026 — the hearing started and the decision was dated the same day. The outcome is documented on MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulator decisions, which lists her as struck off the register.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings in this section are those of an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee panel, made on the civil standard (balance of probabilities) applied in regulatory proceedings, and are attributed throughout to that panel. No criminal conviction appears in the published determination; charges found “proved” before a regulatory panel are panel findings, not criminal adjudications.

The charges found proved at the substantive hearing were that, while working as a registered nurse at Glenfield Hospital, on 30 April 2021 Pearce took dihydrocodeine and codeine phosphate from the medication cupboard on a ward “without authorisation and/or clinical justification”, and that these actions were dishonest “in that she took medication that did not belong to her”. Dishonesty was therefore part of what the panel found proved, not a label added afterwards: the charge as framed recorded that she took medication that did not belong to her.

Her 12-month suspension followed those proven charges of dishonestly taking the two drugs from a ward medication cupboard at Glenfield Hospital. When the matter returned for its first review, the panel found that her fitness to practise remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. It recorded that she had not engaged with the NMC since July 2022 and had provided no reflection, insight or evidence of strengthened practice, despite the substantive panel’s recommendations.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The sanction reasoning turned on that non-engagement. The panel determined that a further period of suspension would not serve any useful purpose, and that the only sanction that would adequately protect the public and serve the public interest was a striking-off order, taking effect upon the expiry of the current suspension order at the end of 31 July 2026. In other words, the regulator concluded that suspending her again would achieve nothing, because the earlier suspension had produced no engagement, no reflection and no evidence of strengthened practice.

The consequence is the regulator’s most severe: erasure. MedicWatch records Pearce as struck off the register and explains that being struck off — the regulator calls this “erasure” — removes the practitioner from the register, and that they are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. MedicWatch states that it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings; the record published against Pearce’s name consists of the charges found proved, the impairment finding and the sanction.

Current Status

As of the decision date of 17 June 2026, Pearce stands struck off the NMC register, with the striking-off order taking effect at the end of 31 July 2026. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite. The published determination records no appeal outcome and no engagement with the NMC since July 2022; it stands as the public record of the charges found proved, the impairment finding and the sanction.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off ends Pearce’s ability to work as a nurse in the UK, and the findings travel with her name and registration number (14H0087E): dishonestly taking dihydrocodeine and codeine phosphate from a ward medication cupboard at Glenfield Hospital, impairment on public protection and public interest grounds, and a conclusion that further suspension would serve no useful purpose. Because she engaged in neither reflection nor the regulatory process after July 2022, the record contains no evidence of strengthened practice on which any future panel could build.

The determination also fixes what it leaves unstated. It does not record what became of the medication taken, whether any patient was affected, or Pearce’s own account of 30 April 2021; her silence in the process means the published record is the panel’s. On this record, the earliest a review could reconsider erasure is after five years, and until then she remains struck off a register she held at the time the charges arose.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Adria Pearce — Struck off the register · 17 June 2026,” 17 June 2026.source