Nadine Field

Introduction

Nadine Field is a practitioner psychologist who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PYL30426. On 8 July 2026, at the end of a substantive hearing that had begun on 19 June 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found her fitness to practise impaired by misconduct and directed that she be struck off the register. The case combined deficient patient records, attending work and a patient appointment under the influence of alcohol, discriminatory comments towards a colleague, and repeated requests for a patient to buy alcohol. A separate allegation that she had treated patients while signed off work was not proved.

Background Information

The published record identifies Field only as a practitioner psychologist holding HCPC registration PYL30426. It does not name an employer, a workplace or a specialty, and it does not describe her training or career; this page does not guess at any of them. Her MedicWatch profile records her most recent published outcome as erasure — struck off the register — decided on 8 July 2026 by the Health and Care Professions Council, while noting her registration status as not yet verified and directing readers to the official HCPC register for current details. MedicWatch aggregates regulator outcomes and states it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Regulatory findings, not a criminal case. The findings below come from an HCPTS panel applying the civil standard — the balance of probabilities. They are regulator findings, not criminal convictions, and no criminal proceedings appear in the published record. The panel expressly did NOT prove the allegation that Field treated patients while signed off work.

The joined allegations before the panel concerned deficient patient record keeping; attending work and attending a patient appointment under the influence of alcohol; discriminatory language towards a colleague; and asking a patient to buy alcohol. A separate allegation concerned treating private and NHS patients while signed off work.

The panel found misconduct in the deficient record keeping, in attending work and a patient appointment under the influence of alcohol, in the discriminatory comments towards a colleague, and in the repeated requests for a patient to purchase alcohol. The allegation of sessions with two private patients and contact with an NHS patient while signed off work was not proved. In the boundary-related case the panel found actual emotional harm to the patient, together with a risk of harm to other patients, and it found Field’s fitness to practise currently impaired on both the personal and public components. It ordered striking off, with a separate interim suspension of up to 18 months pending any appeal.

On sanction the panel identified aggravating factors including a repeated pattern of attending work under the influence of alcohol and breaching professional boundaries with the service user, actions it found motivated by self-interest, upset caused to a colleague in front of others, and an abuse of professional position and trust. Mitigating factors included a demonstrated level of insight into the misconduct found in two of the particulars, apologies given in respect of them, and some evidence of health concerns at the relevant time. The panel nevertheless concluded that Field’s insight overall was insufficient, that no remediation had been demonstrated, and that there was a real risk of repetition.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Field or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determinations are the erasure direction of 8 July 2026 and the separate interim suspension covering the appeal period, capped at 18 months.

That interim restriction has its own history. At an interim orders hearing on 20 April 2026 — before the substantive hearing had concluded — an HCPTS panel conducting an interim order review confirmed or continued an interim suspension. Interim orders are precautionary restrictions; the published interim determination records that they are not findings of fault, and at the time it was made the underlying allegations had not yet been adjudicated.

Current Status

Field was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 8 July 2026. Her MedicWatch profile records erasure as her most recent published outcome, notes her registration status as not yet verified, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for her current position. The striking-off order was accompanied by a separate interim suspension of up to 18 months covering the appeal period, meaning the restriction on her registration continues through any appeal before the final order takes full effect.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Erasure ended Field’s registration to practise as a practitioner psychologist in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s route to that outcome matters for how the case is understood: it credited her with partial insight and apologies on some particulars and noted evidence of health concerns, but found insufficient insight overall, no demonstrated remediation, and a real risk of repetition — while expressly declining to prove the allegation that she had worked with patients while signed off.

Beyond the determinations, the published record contains no information about her circumstances since the decision, and nothing on this page should be read as going beyond it.

Sources

• *MedicWatch, “HCPTS strikes off Nadine Field over alcohol, discrimination and boundary findings” (HCPC determination, decision dated 8 July 2026) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Nadine Field — Interim restrictions imposed” (HCPC determination, decision dated 20 April 2026) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Nadine Field — Practitioner psychologist · Health and Care Professions Council PYL30426” — source