Judith Margaret Nicholas
Introduction
Judith Margaret Nicholas is a registered nurse formerly on the register of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), PIN 82I0076W. On 23 February 2026 an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order after finding proved a catalogue of charges from her time working with care home residents between September 2022 and May 2023: mimicking a resident’s speech, shouting and screaming at residents, refusing to dress a resident’s pressure sore, failing catheter hygiene, missing diabetic and Parkinson’s medication checks, and using her mobile phone while feeding a resident . The panel recorded her fitness to practise as impaired and erased her from the register .
Background Information
Nicholas was registered with the NMC as a nurse under PIN 82I0076W . Her practitioner profile records the outcome “erased from the register at last register check”, lists the 23 February 2026 erasure as her most recent decision, and notes the entry was last verified against the official NMC register on 25 July 2026 . The charges place her in a care home serving elderly and vulnerable residents — the residents are identified only by letters A through J — between 30 September 2022 and May 2023; the published record names no employer and gives no other biographical detail .
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; nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one, and this determination states none. The cover page lists proved charges 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 4a, 5, 7, 8 and 9a.
The degrading-conduct charges the panel found proved include uploading a photograph of Resident A in a bush to the Caredocs system as her signing-in or profile picture, and mimicking Resident I by placing a post-it note on her glasses, banging the table and shouting “toilet toilet” repeatedly . The panel also found proved that she shouted at Resident I and screamed at Resident J, including the words “who do you think you’re talking to” or words to that effect .
The neglect charges found proved are equally specific. On 26 February 2023, before inserting a new catheter for Resident C, she failed to clean the area of insertion and failed to use a dressing pack . On or around 10 March 2023, having been told by Colleague A that Resident D had breathing difficulties, she failed to attend Resident D and said to Colleague A “what do you expect, she’s 103” or words to that effect . On or around 15 May 2023 she refused to dress Resident E’s pressure sore wound when requested to do so by Colleague B . The panel further found proved that she failed to administer diabetic checks and/or insulin injection checks to Resident F, failed to ensure Resident G received their Parkinson’s disease medication at the correct times, and used her mobile telephone while feeding Resident H, on occasions between September 2022 and May 2023 .
The hearing began on 16 February 2026 and ended with the striking-off decision on 23 February 2026, the panel recording impairment by reason of the misconduct .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage, public statements or online campaigns connected with the case; the determination page and practitioner profile confine themselves to the regulator’s findings . The concrete consequence is the loss of registration. The striking-off order removes Nicholas from the register on which her nursing career depended . The case sits in MedicWatch’s browsable record of nurse erasures, added to the service on 5 May 2026 .
Current Status
Nicholas is struck off the NMC register. Her practitioner profile records the outcome “erased from the register at last register check”, with the erasure decision dated 23 February 2026 and the record last verified against the official register on 25 July 2026 . The determination page notes that the regulator directed removal from the register, that the decision explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions, and points readers to the official NMC register for current registration status . No appeal, later decision or restoration application appears in the published record .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order ends Nicholas’s ability to practise as a nurse in the United Kingdom. The proved findings span both halves of the NMC’s core standards — care that must be given and dignity that must be preserved — and the degrading-conduct findings toward residents who could not answer back, including mocking a resident’s need for the toilet, are the type of finding panels treat as seriously damaging to confidence in the profession . A nurse erased on findings of this breadth would need to remedy the deficiencies across clinical care, dignity and record-related conduct before any restoration could succeed . The published record gives no information about her employment or personal circumstances after the order, and her profile records no later regulatory decisions .