Amanda Lillian Reid
Introduction
Amanda Lillian Reid is a British nurse who was struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register on 14 September 2026, after the regulator’s Fitness to Practise Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by a criminal conviction for defrauding the Scottish Pensions Authority. She had pleaded guilty at Livingston Sheriff Court on 8 September 2025 and received a two-year prison sentence. The fraud, which rested on a false claim of terminal illness, was described by the NMC panel as sustained, planned dishonesty carried out for personal financial gain.
Background Information
Reid was a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, holding registration number 98B0315S. Neither the court proceedings nor the published NMC determination identifies her employer, workplace or area of nursing practice.
Her criminal case concerned the Scottish Pensions Authority, the body that administers pensions for Scotland’s public sector. On 8 September 2025, at Livingston Sheriff Court, Reid pleaded guilty to defrauding the authority by falsely claiming to be terminally ill in order to obtain pension payments, and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. The deception was not a single act: the findings recorded by the NMC describe a scheme sustained over a prolonged period, involving substantial planning and fabricated medical evidence.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. Reid’s fraud conviction follows her own guilty plea and is a matter of court record; the NMC panel proved the sole charge against her on the certificate of conviction. No part of the offending is an unproven allegation. The panel’s characterisations of her insight and engagement are regulatory findings, not court findings.
The scheme at the centre of the case involved Reid falsely claiming a terminal illness to obtain pension payments from the Scottish Pensions Authority. The aggravating findings recorded in the NMC determination describe the scale of the planning involved: she changed her appearance by shaving her head daily and taking weight-loss medication, and forged sixteen medical letters purporting to come from a private healthcare provider. She also falsely obtained treatment and controlled drugs, and deceived healthcare professionals, family members and friends. The panel characterised this as a pattern of dishonest behaviour over a prolonged period of time, carried out for personal financial gain.
The NMC proceedings that followed examined that conviction. A letter from the NMC dated 31 July 2026 recorded that Reid had not responded to the charge by completing and sending the Case Management Form to the regulator. The panel noted, however, that the NMC had received a completed Regulatory Concerns Response Form, dated 21 November 2025, in which Reid accepted the regulatory concern relating to her conviction for fraud. When the Fitness to Practise Committee determined the case on 14 September 2026, the sole charge — the conviction on 8 September 2025 at Livingston Sheriff Court for defrauding the Scottish Pensions Authority — was found proved on the certificate of conviction, and the panel found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of that conviction, on both public-protection and public-interest grounds.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The panel described the offending as sustained, planned dishonesty. It recorded that there was no evidence patients had actually been put at risk; the harm identified lay in the dishonesty itself and in the damage to confidence in the profession rather than in clinical practice. The panel found no evidence of sufficient insight, remorse or remediation, and noted a lack of meaningful engagement with the NMC. The mitigation before it was limited to the guilty plea and her acceptance of the regulatory concern; the panel acknowledged both, but concluded that a conditions-of-practice order or a suspension order would be insufficient to protect the public or maintain standards. It imposed a striking-off order dated 14 September 2026, together with an 18-month interim suspension order covering the appeal period.
Current Status
Reid was struck off the NMC register by order dated 14 September 2026. The 18-month interim suspension covers the appeal period; if no appeal is made, the final striking-off order replaces the interim order 28 days after written notification. The published sources do not record whether any appeal has been brought. MedicWatch’s practitioner profile carries the erasure as her most recent regulatory outcome and directs readers to the official NMC register for her current registration status.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The direct consequences of the case are the two-year prison sentence imposed at Livingston Sheriff Court in September 2025 and removal from the nursing register in September 2026. A striking-off order means Reid can no longer work as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom while it stands. The findings that accompany the order — prolonged, planned dishonesty conducted through forged medical letters and the deception of professionals, family and friends for personal financial gain — form the permanent regulatory record that any future application for restoration to the register would be measured against. On the record as published, the only factors in her favour are the guilty plea and the acceptance of the regulatory concern set out in her Regulatory Concerns Response Form of 21 November 2025.