Karen Nutbeam
Introduction
Karen Nutbeam was a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), registration number 81J2319E, working in Surrey, whose fitness-to-practise case arose from her shouting at a vulnerable care-home resident in her care. At a review hearing decided on 8 June 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found her fitness to practise remained impaired and replaced a 12-month conditions of practice order — imposed in 2025 for that misconduct — with a striking-off order .
Background Information
Nutbeam was registered with the NMC as a nurse under PIN 81J2319E, with a recorded specialty of adult nursing . She was working as a registered nurse in Surrey, in a care-home setting, at the time of the incident later put before the regulator . Beyond her name, registration number, specialty 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; no charges against Karen Nutbeam were found not proved — the single charge described here was found proved at the original substantive hearing, and the 8 June 2026 meeting reviewed the existing order rather than re-opening the facts. Nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one.
The charge found proved at the original substantive hearing was that Ms Nutbeam, a registered nurse, on 24 May 2021 failed to treat a resident in her care with dignity or respect, in that she shouted at Resident A, and that her fitness to practise was thereby impaired by reason of her misconduct . The determination identifies the setting as a care home and the resident as vulnerable; the charge was framed entirely as a failure to treat Resident A with dignity or respect rather than as a clinical or medication failure .
The decision under review was the first review of a 12-month conditions of practice order imposed by a Fitness to Practise Committee on 26 June 2025 for that misconduct. At the review, the panel found Ms Nutbeam’s fitness to practise remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, having seen no evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice. It noted she had not engaged meaningfully with the NMC since 2023, save for an email dated 29 April 2026 in which she denied the charge, asked the NMC to stop, and stated that her PIN had lapsed and she did not intend to return to practice. The panel determined that conditions of practice were no longer workable and that a suspension order would serve no useful purpose, and replaced the order with a striking-off order taking effect at the end of 24 July 2026 under Article 30(1) .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The immediate consequence was regulatory: a striking-off order replacing the 12-month conditions of practice order imposed on 26 June 2025 . 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 8 July 2026 .
Current Status
Nutbeam’s most recent recorded outcome is erasure — struck off the register — decided on 8 June 2026 by the NMC, with the review hearing having started on the same day . The striking-off order takes effect at the end of 24 July 2026 under Article 30(1) . Her profile page notes that she was registered with conditions at the last register check, verified against the NMC register on 23 July 2026, and directs readers to the official register for current registration details . MedicWatch’s explainer notes that the decision sets out when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure removed Nutbeam from the register on which her status as a registered nurse depended. The panel’s reasoning turned on her lack of engagement: it found no evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice, recorded that she had denied the charge in an April 2026 email and did not intend to return to practice, and concluded that conditions were no longer workable . The determination page gives no information about her subsequent employment or personal circumstances, 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 8 June 2026 .