Janette Donnelly
Introduction
Janette Donnelly was a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), registration number 83B0581S, and the manager of a care home when a fitness-to-practise panel found that she had restrained a vulnerable resident so that a COVID-19 vaccination could be injected through the resident’s leggings. In a decision dated 2 April 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee directed her erasure — commonly described as being struck off the register — and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order pending the conclusion of the case . The case combined findings about the physical restraint of a resident with a finding of dishonesty over the failure to report how the vaccination was given.
Background Information
Donnelly was registered with the NMC as a nurse under PIN 83B0581S . On 19 February 2021 she was employed as Home Manager at Millport Care Centre, the setting for the events later put before the regulator . Beyond her name, registration number, role 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 . Her profile page carried a “registration status not yet verified” notice and directed readers to the official NMC register for current registration details .
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 court-of-record-equivalent regulatory findings; Janette Donnelly was found NOT proved on Charges 1.a and 2.c, the two sub-charges the published summary does not spell out individually. Panels do not convict; nothing here is a criminal conviction unless the determination itself records one.
The charges arose from events at Millport Care Centre on 19 February 2021, while Donnelly was employed there as Home Manager. She was charged with being responsible for and contributing to the restraint of a resident identified only as Service User A, by holding the resident’s head and directing further restraint by colleagues. Further charges alleged that she informed the administering nurse she would not report that the COVID-19 vaccination had been injected through the resident’s leggings, and subsequently did not report it; that the restraint was unnecessary and not in line with the resident’s care plan; and that she acted dishonestly in knowing she had a duty to report the inappropriate vaccination administration .
The panel found Charges 1.b.i, 1.b.ii, 1.c.i, 1.c.ii, 2.a, 2.b and 3 proved, and Charges 1.a and 2.c not proved . On the proved findings, it concluded that Donnelly was responsible for restraining the resident’s head and directing further restraint by junior colleagues; that the restraint was unnecessary and not in line with the resident’s care plan; and that she instructed the administering nurse to inject the COVID-19 vaccination through the resident’s leggings and then dishonestly failed to report this . The panel concluded that her fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct .
MedicWatch’s plain-English summary of the determination reads: “The NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mrs Janette Donnelly, a registered nurse and home manager, restrained a vulnerable resident at Millport Care Centre on 19 February 2021 to enable a COVID-19 vaccination through the resident’s leggings, and then dishonestly failed to report the inappropriate administration.”
Public Reaction and Consequences
The immediate consequence was regulatory. The panel ordered Donnelly’s erasure from the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order to run pending the conclusion of the case . 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, which describes itself as an independent record service aggregating publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators, added the case to its record on 25 April 2026 .
Current Status
Donnelly’s most recent recorded outcome is erasure — struck off the register — decided on 2 April 2026 by the NMC . The substantive hearing had begun on 12 May 2025 and ended on the decision date, spanning close to a year of proceedings . 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 . Her profile page carried the “not yet verified” registration notice rather than a live confirmation of her position on the register .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure removed Donnelly from the register on which her status as a registered nurse depended, and the proved dishonesty finding sat at the centre of the case: the panel found she knew she had a duty to report the inappropriate vaccination administration and did not do so . The determination page gives no information about her subsequent employment or personal circumstances, and the profile page 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 2 April 2026 .