Violetta Hajjar

Introduction

Violetta Hajjar is a nurse who was struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register at a review hearing on 29 June 2026, when the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found her fitness to practise impaired and decided to replace her suspension order with a striking-off order taking effect at the end of 4 August 2026. She was registered with the NMC under PIN 95B0087O. The striking-off followed charges found proved at the original substantive hearing: that, on 11 May 2019, she failed to administer prescribed medication to Resident B and signed Resident B’s Medication Administration Record (MAR chart) as if she had. The findings summarised here were made by a regulatory panel on the civil standard, not by a criminal court.

Background Information

The charges at the centre of the case relate to 11 May 2019, when Hajjar was working as a nurse caring for a resident referred to in the determination only as Resident B. The charges found proved at the original substantive hearing were that, on that date, she “failed to administer prescribed medication to Resident B and signed Resident B’s Medication Administration Record (MAR chart) to indicate that she had administered prescribed medication when she had not”. A MAR chart is the record used in care settings to document each dose of medication given to a resident, so a signature on it states that the dose was administered.

What followed was a suspension-first regulatory arc. The hearing that ended her registration was the “second review of a 6-month substantive suspension order” originally imposed on 4 July 2025 and extended for a further 6 months on 28 January 2026, meaning she had been suspended since July 2025. That second review was heard and decided on 29 June 2026. 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 proved charges pair a failure of care with a record that stated the opposite of what had occurred: on 11 May 2019, according to the panel’s findings, Hajjar “failed to administer prescribed medication to Resident B and signed Resident B’s Medication Administration Record (MAR chart) to indicate that she had administered prescribed medication when she had not”. In other words, Resident B went without prescribed medication, and the medication record was then signed as if the dose had been given.

When the matter returned for its second review on 29 June 2026, the panel found Ms Hajjar’s fitness to practise “remains impaired on the grounds of public protection and the wider public interest”, noting “no engagement with the regulatory process, no evidence of insight, reflection, remediation or strengthened practice across two consecutive six-month periods of suspension”.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The sanction reasoning turned on that non-engagement. The panel concluded that “a further suspension order would serve no meaningful purpose” and decided to replace the suspension order with a striking-off order, which takes effect upon the expiry of the current suspension order at the end of 4 August 2026 in accordance with Article 30(1) of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001. In other words, the regulator concluded that suspending her again would achieve nothing, because two consecutive six-month periods of suspension had produced no engagement and no evidence of insight, reflection, remediation or strengthened practice.

The consequence is the regulator’s most severe: erasure. MedicWatch records Hajjar 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 Hajjar’s name consists of the charges found proved, the impairment finding and the sanction.

Current Status

As of the decision date of 29 June 2026, Hajjar stands struck off the NMC register, with the striking-off order taking effect at the end of 4 August 2026, when the current suspension expires. 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 regulatory process across the two suspension periods; 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 Hajjar’s ability to work as a nurse in the UK, and the findings travel with her name and registration number (95B0087O): failing to give a resident prescribed medication and signing the medication record as if she had, impairment on the grounds of public protection and the wider public interest, and a conclusion that a further suspension order would serve no meaningful purpose. Because she showed no engagement with the regulatory process and no evidence of insight, reflection, remediation or strengthened practice across two consecutive six-month periods of suspension, the record contains nothing on which any future panel could build.

The determination also fixes what it leaves unstated. It does not record what became of Resident B, whether any harm resulted, or Hajjar’s own account of 11 May 2019; the absence of engagement with 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, “Violetta Hajjar — Struck off the register · 29 June 2026,” 29 June 2026.source