Joy Harradine
Introduction
Joy Harradine is a mental health nurse who has been struck off the register of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the professional regulator for nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom. At a review hearing on 18 June 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee decided that her fitness to practise remained impaired and directed that she be struck off the register when her current suspension expired on 15 July 2026. The case concerned her response to an unwitnessed fall suffered by a patient — anonymised in the proceedings as Patient A — on 18 March 2023.
The decision ended a regulatory process that had begun with a 12-month suspension order and concluded with the most serious sanction available to the regulator: erasure — being struck off.
Background Information
Harradine was registered with the NMC under the number 09B0637E. The events at the centre of the proceedings took place on 18 March 2023, when Patient A suffered a fall that nobody witnessed. The charges arising from that shift were found proved by admission at the original hearing, which imposed a 12-month substantive suspension order; the hearing on 18 June 2026 was the first review of that order, and the panel described the case as involving a vulnerable adult.
Being struck off — the regulator calls this “erasure” — removes the practitioner from the register, meaning 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”.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. No criminal court is involved in this case: the record contains no convictions and reports no criminal proceedings. The charges were found proved by admission at the original NMC hearing, and conclusions such as impairment, absence of insight and continuing risk are the civil-standard findings of the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee panel, not criminal adjudications.
The charges found proved by admission concerned Harradine’s response to Patient A’s unwitnessed fall on 18 March 2023. The panel found that she failed to respond appropriately in that she “did not check Patient A for any injury or seek medical advice” after the fall.
The second strand of the charges was record-keeping: she demonstrated poor record keeping in that she “did not complete observations, neurological observations, or documentation, and did not follow the Falls Policy by completing a falls report, accident form or daily notes”.
The third strand concerned safeguarding: she failed to safeguard Patient A in that she did not intervene when staff “hoisted Patient A using inaccurate techniques”, when Patient A “was in pain during the hoisting procedure”, when Patient A “was not covered”, and when staff “behaved and spoke inappropriately towards Patient A”.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The immediate consequence of the original hearing was the 12-month substantive suspension order, and the review panel’s task in June 2026 was to decide what should happen when it expired. It found that Harradine’s fitness to practise “remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, noting no evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice since the original hearing”.
The panel then ruled out each lesser option in turn, concluding that “no further action, a caution order, a conditions of practice order or a further suspension order would be appropriate”. It also concluded that “lapse with impairment was not available because a risk of harm remained and the case involved a vulnerable adult”.
Beyond the determination itself, the published record is thin: the material in the public domain consists of the regulator’s decision as republished by MedicWatch, which states that it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings. No wider press coverage, public statements or comment from Harradine appear in the record.
Current Status
Harradine has been struck off the NMC register. The panel directed the registrar to strike her name off the register, with the striking-off order taking effect upon expiry of the current suspension order at the end of 15 July 2026, in accordance with Article 30(1). As a result she is “no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK”. The erasure “can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite”, so any application to return to the register would be at least five years away.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order ends Harradine’s career as a nurse in the United Kingdom: erasure removes her from the register entirely, so she cannot hold any role that requires NMC registration. The panel’s reasoning shows why it regarded lesser sanctions as insufficient: impairment on both public protection and public interest grounds, “no evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice since the original hearing”, a continuing risk of harm, and the involvement of a vulnerable adult.
The case also illustrates how the review stage works in practice. A substantive suspension order removes a practitioner from the register for a fixed period; at review, the panel weighs what has changed since the original hearing. In Harradine’s case, what weighed with the panel was the absence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice — the factors it identified in moving from a 12-month suspension to erasure, the only outcome it found proportionate to the risk it had identified.
Sources
- MedicWatch, “Joy Harradine — Struck off the register · 18 June 2026,” 18 June 2026.source