Cheryl Lee Feltner
Introduction
Cheryl Lee Feltner was a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), registration number 07K0854E, who had been working as a mental health liaison nurse when a fitness-to-practise panel found she had entered an inappropriate personal relationship with a vulnerable 16-year-old she had cared for, contacted them without clinical justification, encouraged them to abscond from their care home, and given them money. In a decision dated 5 June 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and, finding a real risk of repetition, made a striking-off order .
Background Information
Feltner was registered with the NMC as a nurse under PIN 07K0854E . The determination records that she had been working as a mental health liaison nurse, and that the young person concerned — Person A — was a 16-year-old she had cared for, who was subject to a Deprivation of Liberty order and had complex mental health needs . Beyond her name, registration number and the outcome of her case, the public pages published by MedicWatch contain little biographical detail: they record no date of birth, no training history and no earlier regulatory findings .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings in this section come from a Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness-to-practise panel determination, which decided the charges on the balance of probabilities. Charges found proved are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions; Cheryl Lee Feltner was found NOT proved on the allegation that she gave Person A details of her home address, which the panel found not proved as the only evidence was hearsay. Nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one.
The charges alleged that Ms Feltner had from 13 February 2024 contacted Person A by text message and phone call without clinical justification, and entered into a personal relationship with them. On or around 26 March 2024, she was alleged to have encouraged Person A to abscond from their care home, given Person A details of her home address, invited Person A to her home, given them money, and, in a phone call, said words set out in a schedule which the panel described as hostile and confrontational. The panel found these charges proved, except the allegation that she gave Person A her home address .
The panel found the charges proved on the balance of probabilities from the documentary and witness evidence, including that the phone number used by ‘Chelsea’ matched Ms Feltner’s number on file, and the evidence of a care worker who intercepted a call and heard others. It found her conduct fell far below the standards expected of a registered nurse and amounted to serious misconduct, showing a clear disregard for professional boundaries and for Person A’s vulnerability and safety. Applying the Grant test, it found she had put a vulnerable young person at unwarranted risk of, and caused, psychological and emotional harm, breached fundamental tenets of the profession, and brought it into disrepute. It considered the concerns attitudinal in nature and, noting her limited insight, lack of remorse, tendency to deflect blame, and absence of any engagement or remediation since May 2024, found a real risk of repetition. It found her fitness to practise currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. Its mitigating factors were difficult personal circumstances at the material time, together with two further matters recorded in private; its aggravating factors were abuse of a position of trust and that the misconduct involved a highly vulnerable minor .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The immediate consequence was regulatory: a striking-off order made at a substantive hearing that ran from 1 June to 5 June 2026 . Neither the determination page nor the practitioner profile records any press coverage, public statements or online campaigns connected with the case; both confine themselves to the regulator’s findings and links to the underlying decision . MedicWatch added the case to its record on 7 July 2026 .
Current Status
Feltner’s most recent recorded outcome is erasure — struck off the register — decided on 5 June 2026 by the NMC . Her profile page notes that she was suspended at the last register check, verified against the NMC register on 8 July 2026, and directs readers to the official register for current registration details . MedicWatch’s explainer notes that the regulator directed removal from the register in this decision, that the decision sets out when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions, and that readers should check the official NMC register for the practitioner’s current registration status .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure removed Feltner from the register on which her status as a registered nurse depended. The panel’s striking-off order rested on its finding of a real risk of repetition, drawn from her limited insight, lack of remorse, tendency to deflect blame, and absence of any engagement or remediation since May 2024 . The determination page gives no information about her subsequent employment or personal circumstances beyond the mitigating factors it records, and the profile records no later regulatory decisions . Her case remains part of MedicWatch’s browsable record of nurse erasures, listed under the outcome “struck off the register” with the decision date of 5 June 2026 .