Victoria Louise Huzzard

Introduction

Victoria Louise Huzzard is a United Kingdom registered nurse, recorded by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) under registration number 14E1980E. In August 2026, a Fitness to Practise Committee panel of the NMC found her fitness to practise impaired by misconduct and imposed a striking-off order, removing her from the nursing register. The case concerned medication administration and record-keeping failures at two care homes in March and April 2022, and a finding that she dishonestly signed a colleague’s name in the controlled drugs and destruction books to suggest the colleague had witnessed her. She did not attend the hearings or engage with the process.

Background Information

Huzzard worked as a nurse in care homes, settings that look after elderly and vulnerable residents who depend on staff for their medicines. In such a role, a nurse is responsible for administering medication exactly as prescribed, recording each dose on the medication administration record (MAR) chart, and maintaining the controlled drugs book — a legal register in which opiates and other controlled substances must be counted, administered and disposed of in the presence of a second signing witness. These records let the next shift, management and inspectors confirm every tablet and patch is accounted for.

The body that judged her conduct, the NMC, is the statutory regulator for nurses and midwives across the United Kingdom. It maintains the register of practitioners permitted to work and, through its Fitness to Practise Committee, hears allegations that a nurse’s fitness to practise is impaired. Panels decide facts on the balance of probabilities — a civil standard, lower than the criminal standard — and can impose sanctions ranging from no further action through conditions and suspension up to a striking-off order, which erases the nurse from the register entirely.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated (regulatory). The findings in this section were made by a Nursing and Midwifery Council Fitness to Practise Committee panel on the balance of probabilities — a civil standard, not a criminal conviction. Huzzard did not attend the hearings and did not engage with the process; the panel found all charges proved, including dishonesty.

The first set of charges concerned 23 March 2022 at Holly Tree Lodge Care Home. The panel found that Huzzard administered 10mg of Zomorph, a controlled-release morphine preparation, to Resident A instead of the prescribed 20mg, and then recorded that she had administered 20mg when she had not. The same charge alleged that she did not administer, or did not sign the MAR chart for, medications for Residents B, C, D and E, and that she did not sign the controlled drugs book for a buprenorphine patch given to Resident F.

The second set concerned 1 April 2022 at Eaton Court Care Home. In relation to Resident G, the panel found she did not administer, count or dispose of pregabalin in the presence of a witness, and that she signed as Colleague A in the destruction book and the controlled drugs book, indicating that Colleague A had witnessed the disposal and administration when they had not. The charges alleged this signing was dishonest: that she deliberately sought to represent that Colleague A had witnessed her when she knew they had not.

The panel found all charges proved on the balance of probabilities. Applying the Supreme Court’s test in Ivey v Genting Casinos, it concluded that Huzzard had forged Ms Garrard’s signature to conceal that she had administered and destroyed controlled drugs without a witness. Although the conduct took place during a single shift, the panel found it “deliberate and calculated” because she returned later in the shift to forge the signatures. It held that the errors in medication administration and record keeping were fundamental to nursing practice, committed in a care home caring for vulnerable residents, and that inaccurate recording of controlled drugs “can give rise to the risk of serious harm”. The facts amounted to misconduct, and her fitness to practise was found currently impaired on the grounds of both public protection and the wider public interest.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The panel determined that Huzzard has minimal insight and has not remediated or strengthened her practice. In mitigation it noted that no direct harm was caused to the residents and that she provided a limited reflective account for one of the incidents. Against that stood a substantial list of aggravating factors: an abuse of a position of trust; conduct which deliberately or recklessly put people receiving care at risk of suffering harm; deliberate breaches of the Code; repetition of dishonesty; minimal insight; the vulnerability of the residents; an element of premeditation in her dishonesty; and her failure to attend the hearings or engage in the Fitness to Practise process without good reason.

On 7 August 2026, at the conclusion of a hearing that had run from 5 to 7 August, the panel imposed a striking-off order and, to cover the 28-day appeal period, an interim suspension order of 18 months.

Current Status

Victoria Louise Huzzard has been struck off the NMC register — the regulator calls this erasure — and is no longer permitted to practise as a nurse in the United Kingdom. The 18-month interim suspension order covers the appeal period, so she is barred from practice while any appeal is open. Erasure is otherwise indefinite: under the NMC’s rules it can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but removal from the register persists unless a future review or appeal restores her.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order ends Huzzard’s registered nursing career in the United Kingdom unless she successfully appeals or is restored to the register at a review at the earliest five years away. Because employers and other regulators can check the NMC register by registration number — hers is 14E1980E — the erasure is a permanent public record attached to her name. The panel’s reasoning placed her dishonesty at the centre of the outcome: the forged witness signatures transformed record-keeping failures into a finding of dishonesty, and the repetition of that dishonesty, combined with her refusal to engage with the process, foreclosed the more lenient outcomes of conditions or suspension.