Lian Kenny
Introduction
Lian Kenny is a registered nurse who was suspended for six months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on 27 April 2026, after a Fitness to Practise Committee found — on her own admissions, in a signed consensual panel determination agreement — that between 24 August 2020 and 4 October 2021 she received £5,993.51 in sick pay from North West Care NHS Foundation Trust (later merged with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust) while also working for Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust on dates set out in a schedule. The panel found the conduct dishonest: she knowingly worked for Bridgewater while also receiving sick pay from Mersey Care. The six-month suspension was imposed without a review, expiring on 27 October 2026 .
Background Information
The case’s arithmetic was simple and damaging: fourteen months of drawing sick pay from one NHS employer while clocking shifts for another, on dates the schedule itemised. The charges also alleged she worked whilst unfit to do so — the premise on which the sick pay rested. Every charge was found proved by way of her admissions in the signed consensual panel determination, the NMC’s paper-based disposal for cases where the registrant accepts both facts and outcome .
The panel found the conduct amounted to misconduct, breaching the Code’s honesty and integrity requirements over that 14-month period. Because the case was consensual, there was no contested hearing and no witness evidence — the admissions are the findings .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory), admitted. The findings below rest on the nurse’s own signed admissions accepted by an NMC panel — a civil regulatory process, not a criminal conviction.
The dishonesty the panel found was specific: not a paperwork error but the knowing state of receiving sick pay for unfitness to work while, on scheduled dates, working. The aggravating finding was pointed — “a significant period of repeated dishonesty which was for personal gain” — nearly five thousand nine hundred pounds taken by instalments across fourteen months, each pay cycle a separate act .
Mitigation pulled the other way with equal weight: the overpayment was repaid in full; remorse and insight were demonstrated through developed reflection and relevant training; and her clinical practice has been commended, with positive references speaking highly of her character. The panel found fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds only — not public protection — noting the repayment, the remorse, the probity and ethics training she had undertaken, and a low risk of repetition .
On sanction, the panel imposed a six-month suspension without review, expiring 27 October 2026. No interim order was made. The absence of a review is the panel’s own signal that it considered the matter closed after the term: the dishonesty was serious enough to suspend over, and contained enough not to need watching .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequence is the six-month suspension itself — imposed at a single-day hearing on 27 April 2026, resolved without contest, and recorded in MedicWatch’s listing of nurses suspended in 2026. No public statement from Kenny or from either trust appears in the fetched record beyond the determination itself .
The regulatory exposure did not stop at the NMC: sick-pay claims of this shape sit within NHS fraud-recovery and criminal-referral frameworks. The fetched record shows the regulatory outcome only; nothing in it establishes any criminal charge or prosecution, and none should be inferred from this page .
Current Status
Kenny is a suspended nurse until 27 October 2026, after which the suspension lapses by its own terms without a review hearing. The public-interest impairment finding means the suspension marks the register’s disapproval rather than answering a live risk — the panel expressly found low risk of repetition, full repayment, and demonstrated insight .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The case is the batch’s cleanest dishonesty finding — admitted, quantified, repaid — and its trajectory is correspondingly contained: no patient was harmed, no clinical failing was found, and the panel’s public-interest-only impairment keeps the sanction symbolic in form even while it costs six months of practice. What the register will permanently carry is the finding that a nurse claimed unfitness to one NHS employer for fourteen months while working for another, for £5,993.51.
For her career, the consensual route she chose shaped the outcome: admissions bought the no-review, six-month, public-interest-only disposal that a contested case over the same schedule might not have. The commended clinical practice and positive references in the panel’s own findings give the record its counterweight — a nurse suspended for what she claimed, not for how she nursed .