Joanne Marie Millard

Introduction

Joanne Marie Millard is an adult nurse who was struck off the register of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in 2026. At a review hearing that started on 19 June 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed a six-month suspension order imposed on her the previous December and replaced it with a striking-off order, effective from the end of 26 July 2026. The original panel found she “did not take timely action when a resident in her care became less responsive and did not keep adequate records”.

She was registered under NMC reference 14F0662E, and the case against her concerned events of 4 July 2020 — nearly five years before the suspension that preceded her removal from the register. MedicWatch, which republishes regulator determinations, added the case on 9 July 2026 under the outcome heading of erasure, meaning struck off the register.

Background Information

The determination identifies Millard as a registered nurse and an adult nurse, holding NMC reference 14F0662E. It does not name her employer or set out the rest of her career. The conduct at issue took place on 4 July 2020, when she was caring for a resident identified in the charges only as Resident 1.

The regulatory outcome unfolded in two stages. First came “a six-month substantive suspension order imposed on 17 December 2025”; the determination does not explain the interval between the 2020 events and that suspension. The second stage was the first review of that suspension, held on 19 June 2026, where the committee decided to end her registration altogether.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. No criminal conviction arises from these events, and the source determination alleges none: Millard has not been prosecuted, and nothing in this case is a court finding. The charges below were regulatory charges; the findings against her are civil-standard findings made by the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee, a regulatory panel rather than a criminal court.

The charges concerned her conduct on 4 July 2020 in the care of Resident 1. The first charge was that she “Did not complete adequate records for Resident 1, including not recording Resident 1’s deteriorating reaction to the sternal rub” — a sternal rub being a stimulus used to check a person’s responsiveness. The second was that she “Did not take appropriate and/or timely action upon being told that Resident 1 was less responsive and/or unresponsive”. The charges concluded that, in light of the above, “your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of your misconduct”.

At the first review of “a six-month substantive suspension order imposed on 17 December 2025”, the panel “found that Miss Millard’s fitness to practise remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds”. It found “no new evidence that she had developed insight, reflected on her misconduct, or taken steps to strengthen her practice”, and determined she “remains liable to repeat matters of the kind found proved” — a reference to the charges the original panel found proved against her.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The public trace of the case is regulatory rather than social: the determination records no press coverage, no public statements, and no surrounding controversy. The consequences that carried weight were those the panel itself set out. Noting her “minimal engagement”, “her stated intention not to return to nursing”, and “her email request to be removed from the register”, the panel “decided to replace the suspension order with a striking-off order, taking effect at the end of 26 July 2026 in accordance with Article 30(1)”.

MedicWatch added the case to its list of determinations on 9 July 2026, presenting the outcome in plain English: the suspension was replaced with a striking-off order, and the review panel “found her fitness to practise remains impaired, with no new evidence of insight or retraining”. For a nurse whose removal rests on panel findings rather than any court judgment, publication of the determination is the principal public record of the case.

Current Status

As of the decision dated 19 June 2026, Millard is struck off the NMC register, with the striking-off order effective from the end of 26 July 2026. Being struck off — the regulator calls it “erasure” — “removes the practitioner from the register”, and “Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite”.

The review panel found “her fitness to practise remains impaired, with no new evidence of insight or retraining”, and its finding that she “remains liable to repeat matters of the kind found proved” is what ruled out a lesser sanction. The panel also recorded her stated intention not to return to nursing, so no return to practice appears to be sought.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order ends her registration with the NMC, and a person subject to erasure “are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK” — a permanent end to nursing work unless the order is successfully reviewed after at least five years. The impairment findings were made on “both public protection and public interest grounds”, so the removal serves patient safety as well as confidence in the profession.

The determination is otherwise sparse about her life beyond the register: it gives no details of her employment history, finances, or personal circumstances. What it does record is a career closed in stages — a resident found less responsive and/or unresponsive in July 2020, records that failed to capture a deteriorating reaction, a suspension in December 2025, and finally a panel that, citing her minimal engagement and her own request to leave the register, struck her off in June 2026.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Joanne Marie Millard — Struck off the register · 19 June 2026,” 19 June 2026.source