Belinda Jayne Kay

Introduction

Belinda Jayne Kay is a British registered nurse who worked as an advanced nurse practitioner at a GP practice until she was struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register in May 2026. A panel of the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found that, between around July 2019 and October 2022, she recorded consultations, examinations and conversations that had not taken place, and that significant parts of that conduct were dishonest. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds and directed that she be erased from the register — the sanction commonly known as being struck off. An 18-month interim suspension order was imposed alongside the decision.

Background Information

The NMC is the statutory regulator for nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom, and erasure is the most severe sanction it can impose at a substantive hearing, removing a nurse’s registration and with it the legal right to work under the protected title of registered nurse. Kay held that registration while working as an advanced nurse practitioner, an experienced nursing role that involves assessing and managing patients in a GP practice setting. It was in that role that the charges against her arose. The NMC charges spanned roughly three years of practice, from around July 2019 to October 2022, and involved more than one patient. Beyond her registration and role, little about Kay’s personal or professional history has been published; the determination record identifies her by name and as a nurse, and she was never criminally charged in connection with these events.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. Kay admitted several charges, and the NMC panel found the remaining relevant charges proved after hearing evidence; charges 4, 5b, 7, 12 and 15 were found not proved, and any conduct connected to them remains an unproven allegation. She was never criminally charged. The dishonesty findings are regulatory adjudications, not criminal convictions.

The charges concerned her record-keeping and clinical practice at the GP practice between around July 2019 and October 2022. The NMC alleged that Kay copied and pasted notes from patient consultations into unrelated patient records; that she did not conduct abdominal examinations on two patients, identified as patients J and K, on 20 September 2022 while recording that she had; that she added a consultation to the wrong patient’s record; that she recorded on a DNACPR form and a consultation sheet that she had held a conversation with a patient’s relative about a do-not-attempt-resuscitation order when that conversation had not taken place; and that she recorded observations for a child that she had not conducted.

At the substantive hearing, decided on 6 May 2026, charges 1, 3, 5a, 10a and 11 were proved by Kay’s own admission. Charges 2a, 2b, 6a, 6b, 8a-d, 9, 10b, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 19 were found proved after the panel heard evidence, including findings that she acted dishonestly in recording a DNACPR conversation that never took place, observations on a child that she had not conducted, and abdominal examinations on two patients that were not carried out. MedicWatch’s summary of the determination states that the panel found she acted dishonestly in recording “abdominal examinations, a child’s observations, and a DNACPR conversation with a patient’s relative that had not taken place”, while working as an advanced nurse practitioner. Charges 4, 5b, 7, 12 and 15 were found not proved. The panel concluded that the proved conduct amounted to serious professional misconduct and that Kay’s fitness to practise was currently impaired.

Public Reaction and Consequences

In setting the sanction, the panel recorded its reasoning through aggravating and mitigating factors. As aggravation it cited the dishonest conduct; abuse of a position of trust; conduct that put people receiving care at unwarranted risk of harm; deliberate breaches of the Code; a pattern of misconduct involving more than one patient over a period of time; the emotional harm caused to patients and relatives; and what it described as deep-seated attitudinal concerns. In mitigation, the panel noted some early admissions of the facts, some developing insight, expressed remorse, personal mitigation heard in private along with a toxic work environment, positive character references, and relevant training courses Kay had undertaken. Weighing these, the panel imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order to take effect alongside it.

Current Status

As of the decision dated 6 May 2026, Kay stands erased from the NMC register and subject to an 18-month interim suspension order. Erasure means she may not work as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom or use the protected title while removed from the register. The determination is published on MedicWatch, an independent record of UK fitness-to-practise decisions. No appeal outcome or reinstatement has been reported.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order ends Kay’s ability to practise as a registered nurse in the UK, the field in which she had worked as an advanced nurse practitioner at a GP practice. The dishonesty findings, as the panel recorded them, attach to entries in patient records over a three-year period and were described as part of a pattern of misconduct rather than isolated errors. The panel also acknowledged mitigation in the form of early admissions, developing insight, remorse and positive character references, and heard about a toxic work environment, though it did not treat this as outweighing the aggravating factors. The findings are regulatory adjudications recorded against her registration, not criminal convictions; any conduct connected to charges 4, 5b, 7, 12 and 15 remains an unproven allegation.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Belinda Jayne Kay — Struck off the register”, 6 May 2026. source