Susan Shuga
Introduction
Susan Shuga is a former UK registered adult nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council registration 99K1213O) from London who was struck off the NMC register on 26 March 2026. A Fitness to Practise Committee panel sitting at a substantive hearing, which opened on 20 November 2025 and concluded on 26 March 2026, found that while acting as the Registered Manager of an agency she had provided a job offer letter containing falsified information, and that in doing so she had behaved dishonestly. The panel concluded that her misconduct was fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register and imposed a striking-off order. The determination is recorded by MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulator decisions.
Background Information
Shuga’s case did not arise from clinical care but from a managerial role. As the Registered Manager of an agency she held a position of trust that involved vouching for people and issuing employment documentation in the agency’s name, and the charges against her concerned exactly how that position was used. The allegations involved the same individual throughout, identified in the determination only as Person 1: it was alleged that on 24 July 2012 she provided Anglia Ruskin University with a false reference for Person 1, and that on 30 April 2015 she provided Person 1 with a job offer letter from her agency that contained falsified information. The determination further records that she had not engaged with the regulatory process since 2022.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against Susan Shuga were made by an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee panel on the civil standard after a full hearing. They were not criminal charges, and a striking-off order is not a criminal record.
The charge sheet comprised four charges arising from the two documents. The panel found charges 2 and 4 proved: that her conduct in providing Person 1 with the job offer letter of 30 April 2015 amounted to misconduct, and that it was dishonest in that she deliberately sought to mislead any third party reading the letter into believing the information contained within it to be true, when she knew it was not. Charges 1 and 3 — the allegations that she provided the 2012 reference to Anglia Ruskin University and did so dishonestly — were not proved. The proved findings therefore rest on the 2015 job offer letter alone.
On that basis the panel found Shuga’s fitness to practise impaired by reason of her misconduct. It concluded that the misconduct involved an abuse of her position of trust as the registered manager of an agency and deliberate and multiple breaches of the Code, that she had not engaged with the Fitness to Practise process since 2022, and that she had demonstrated an absence of insight and remorse.
The panel identified no mitigating factors in the determination as published. The aggravating factors it listed were the abuse of a position of trust, deliberate and multiple breaches of the Code, failure to engage in the Fitness to Practise process since 2022, absence of insight, and absence of remorse.
Public Reaction and Consequences
No independent public or media reaction beyond the published regulator decision is recorded in the sources. The consequences were regulatory but went to the heart of her professional standing. The panel determined that the conduct was fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register and that public confidence in the profession could only be maintained by a striking-off order, which it imposed on 26 March 2026. Because the decision is subject to appeal provisions, the panel also imposed an interim suspension order of 18 months to take effect in the meantime.
Current Status
As of the decision date of 26 March 2026, Shuga stands struck off the NMC register — what the regulator calls “erasure” — which removes her name from the register and ends her entitlement to practise as a registered nurse in the UK. The determination explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions, and readers wishing to confirm her current registration status are directed to the official NMC register. MedicWatch’s practitioner profile, last verified against the NMC register on 13 September 2026, lists her as currently suspended, reflecting the 18-month interim suspension order imposed pending appeal.
Erasure is otherwise indefinite, although under the NMC’s rules it can in principle be reviewed after a minimum of five years. The public record offers no indication that she has sought restoration, and the factors the panel identified — non-engagement with the regulatory process since 2022 and an absence of insight and remorse — would weigh heavily at any future review.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order ends Shuga’s nursing career in the UK and, with it, the registered-manager role at the agency that sat at the centre of the case. A finding of dishonesty is among the most serious marks a regulator can leave on a professional record, and here it attached to a document — a job offer letter bearing the authority of her agency — that was designed to be relied on by third parties. The panel’s conclusion that she deliberately sought to mislead anyone reading the letter, combined with her years of non-engagement and lack of insight or remorse, is what made erasure, in the panel’s words, the only means of maintaining public confidence.
What remains on the record is a split outcome: the 2012 false-reference allegation was not proved, but the 2015 falsified job offer letter was, and the erased registration, the findings behind it and her registration number travel with her name indefinitely in the public record of the profession.
Sources
- MedicWatch, “Susan Shuga — Struck off the register · 26 March 2026 | MedicWatch”, Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing, decision date 26 March 2026. source
- MedicWatch, “Susan Shuga — Struck off the register | Nursing and Midwifery Council 99K1213O”, practitioner profile, last verified against the NMC register on 13 September 2026. source