Lance Jukes

Introduction

Lance Jukes is a former UK adult nurse whose name was removed from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register in July 2026. At a substantive hearing that month, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found that, over a period of more than four years, he sent and received explicit messages concerning the sexual and racial abuse of children, babies and a disabled person, and shared indecent images of children. The panel also found that he had later concealed a police caution from his regulator. Finding his fitness to practise currently impaired, it imposed a striking-off order, the outcome UK regulation calls erasure.

Background Information

Jukes was registered with the NMC as an adult nurse under PIN 12C0043E. The conduct at the centre of the case was charged as having taken place between November 2017 and January 2022, during which time nothing in the published determination suggests any concern had reached the regulator. The case only reached the NMC after a separate event: on 3 January 2024, Jukes received a police caution for harassment without violence, which he did not disclose to the council. The NMC subsequently brought allegations spanning both the messages and the concealed caution, charged as misconduct (charges 1 to 6) and caution (charge 7). His substantive hearing opened on 16 July 2026 and the decision was issued the same day, 16 July 2026.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated (regulatory, by admission). These findings rest on a consensual panel determination — Jukes admitted all charges in full and the panel accepted the agreement after exercising its own independent judgement — making this a regulatory outcome, not a criminal conviction, although the source records that on 3 January 2024 he received a police caution for harassment without violence.

The NMC charged that, between November 2017 and January 2022, Jukes “sent to and/or received from another person explicit and graphic messages relating to the sexual abuse or rape of children, babies and a disabled person, and shared or received indecent images and videos of children.” It was further charged that one or more of these messages contained racist language and that his conduct was racist and/or racially motivated. On the concealment charge, the regulator alleged that after receiving the harassment caution in January 2024 he failed to inform the NMC of it, and that this failure was motivated by an intention to hide it from the regulator.

Jukes admitted all of the charges in full. Because the case was resolved by way of a Consensual Panel Determination, the panel did not hear contested evidence; instead it reviewed the agreement and accepted it only after satisfying itself through its own independent judgement. The panel then found that his conduct amounted to misconduct that was “particularly serious and wide-ranging”, that it took place over a significant period, and that in part it related to the sexual and racial abuse of “some of the most vulnerable in society”, compounded by a dishonest concealment of his caution from the regulator. It concluded that his fitness to practise was currently impaired by reason of both misconduct and caution, on public protection and public interest grounds.

In reaching that conclusion, the panel identified “deep-seated attitudinal issues”, found “no evidence of insight or remediation”, and therefore saw a consequent risk of repetition. The aggravating factors it listed included “a pattern of behaviour over a significant period of time”; allegations involving highly vulnerable members of society, specifically babies, children and disabled people; “absence of insight”; “predatory behaviour”; “discriminatory behaviour”; and the fact that Jukes originally denied all charges except 5 and 7 before later accepting all of them. The only mitigating factors identified were his admissions and his signing of the Consensual Panel Determination agreement. On that basis the committee imposed a striking-off order.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published determination records no public commentary, and no separate proceedings are described beyond the police caution; the immediate consequence was regulatory. The striking-off order removed Jukes from the NMC register, ending his ability to work as a registered nurse in the UK. The determination was published, and MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulators’ decisions, republished its account of the case on 21 July 2026, noting that MedicWatch “does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.” The persistence of the record is itself a consequence: erasure is otherwise indefinite, and the page detailing it remains publicly searchable by name or registration number.

Current Status

As of the decision date of 16 July 2026, Lance Jukes is struck off the NMC register. Being struck off, which the regulator calls “erasure”, “removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK.” Erasure “can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite”, so any application for restoration could not come before 2031 and would not be guaranteed to succeed. The source records no interim order and no appeal; the striking-off order stands as the final stated outcome of the hearing.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order ended Jukes’s nursing career in the UK. Registration PIN 12C0043E no longer confers any right to practise, and the findings — misconduct and caution, with impairment found on both public protection and public interest grounds — would follow him in any future regulated healthcare role that requires disclosure of regulatory history. The panel’s characterisation of his conduct as predatory, discriminatory and dishonest, combined with its finding of deep-seated attitudinal problems and no remediation, makes restoration unlikely even after the five-year minimum. His admissions, which the panel treated as the sole mitigating feature, came only after he had originally denied nearly all of the charges.