Alexander Robert McMurray

Introduction

Alexander Robert McMurray is a former UK registered nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council registration 14B0390E) whose career ended in erasure from the professional register. On 24 March 2026 the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on him after finding that he had made “bullying, humiliating and discriminatory comments to several colleagues at a hospital theatre department between November 2019 and April 2020, including age-related harassment of one colleague”. The panel decided his fitness to practise is currently impaired and, noting his lack of insight and his absence from the hearing, ordered that he be struck off the register; an 18-month interim suspension order was imposed to cover the appeal period. The determination is documented by MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulator decisions.

Background Information

The record identifies McMurray as a registered nurse carrying registration number 14B0390E, working as “a Band 6 Theatre Nurse at a Trust hospital”; it does not name the trust, and nothing in it speaks to his age, training or length of service. What it fixes precisely is the chronology. The conduct at the heart of the case ran from November 2019 to April 2020. The case was decided at a substantive hearing that started on 9 March 2026 and ended on 24 March 2026, the striking-off order bearing the latter date; the record was added to MedicWatch on 27 April 2026.

The record also sketches the years after the conduct. In mitigation it states that “Mr McMurray appears to have worked safely and professionally at Four Seasons Healthcare Group from February 2021 to around August 2023”, adding that the panel also considered private personal information, the details of which are not published.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against Alexander Robert McMurray were made by an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee on the civil standard. They were never criminally charged or adjudicated in court.

Between November 2019 and April 2020, while a Band 6 Theatre Nurse at a Trust hospital, McMurray was alleged to have shouted at and made derogatory remarks to colleagues. The charges, as recorded, include telling Colleague A she should retire because she was ’no use to anyone’ — which the panel found amounted to age-related harassment; repeatedly calling Colleague B ‘fat’ or referring to her weight; telling Colleague C to ‘go take your face for a shit’ and that ‘shit rolls down the hill’; and calling Colleagues D and E ‘fucking useless’ and calling Colleague D a ‘clown’. The outcome line reads: “All charges were found proved except 4b.”

The Fitness to Practise Committee found the charges (other than 4b) proved on “the documentary and oral evidence, including hearsay evidence admitted under Rule 31”. It found that Mr McMurray’s conduct “amounted to misconduct” and that his fitness to practise was “currently impaired on both public-protection and public-interest grounds, with limbs a, b and c of the Grant test engaged”. The panel found the comments were “bullying, humiliating, undermining and offensive”.

The mitigation the panel credited was narrow: he “appears to have worked safely and professionally at Four Seasons Healthcare Group from February 2021 to around August 2023”, and the record notes that the panel also considered private personal information, the details of which are not published. Against that stood the aggravating factors, quoted in the record: “Multiple instances of misconduct over a period of time; failure to attend this hearing; limited insight; failure to work collaboratively with colleagues.”

Public Reaction and Consequences

This was not a public controversy in the ordinary sense, and the record does not pretend otherwise: it contains no press coverage, no employer statement and no comment from McMurray. What it documents is regulatory consequence. The striking-off order removed him from the NMC register, ending his ability to work as a nurse in the UK, and the findings now form part of the permanent public record of NMC decisions, indexed against his name and his registration number. The immediate practical effect was cushioned only by procedure: because a striking-off order carries a right of appeal, “An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed to cover the appeal period”.

Current Status

As of the decision date of 24 March 2026, McMurray stands struck off the register — the outcome the regulator calls erasure. Per the determination’s own explainer, being struck off “removes the practitioner from the register”, and the person struck off is “no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK”. Erasure, the explainer continues, “can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite” — which places the earliest possible review no earlier than 2031.

The record goes no further: it does not record any appeal, restoration application or employment since the decision. What it records is the panel’s judgment that, given his absence from the hearing, his lack of insight or remediation, and misconduct involving multiple incidents over several months, “a striking-off order was the only proportionate sanction”. Until any future review, the striking-off order stands as the operative outcome.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends McMurray’s nursing career in the UK. He cannot work in any role that requires NMC registration, and the findings at the core of the case — the shouting and derogatory remarks directed at colleagues in a hospital theatre department, the age-related harassment of Colleague A, and the conclusion that the comments were bullying, humiliating, undermining and offensive — are recorded against his registration number permanently.

The panel’s own reasoning is the best measure of the impact. It weighed the years of apparently safe and professional work at Four Seasons Healthcare Group after the conduct, and still concluded that no lesser sanction would do: because the misconduct involved multiple instances over a period of time, because he failed to attend the hearing and showed limited insight, and because he failed to work collaboratively with colleagues. The five-year minimum before erasure can be reviewed means even the earliest possible return lies years away. What remains public is the committee’s account: a Band 6 theatre nurse who demeaned the colleagues he worked alongside, did not appear to answer for it, and lost his profession for it.