Yvonne Jane Kearsey
Introduction
Yvonne Jane Kearsey is a registered adult nurse who held PIN 00D0464E on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register. On 13 February 2026, an NMC fitness to practise panel erased her from the register — struck her off — at the end of a substantive hearing into her conduct. The decision replaced her status as a registered nurse with removal from the register, ending her ability to work as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. The core conduct concerned her care of three vulnerable care home residents in 2021: the panel found 17 charges of misconduct proved, spanning inadequate care, record keeping, incident reporting, wound management documentation and care planning.
Background Information
The published record identifies Kearsey as a nurse registered with the NMC under PIN 00D0464E. The failings occurred while she was working at a care home referred to in the determination only as the Home; the record does not name the employer beyond that, and gives no details of her hometown, family or training. Her MedicWatch practitioner profile records that she is “Erased from the register at last register check”, and that the profile was last verified against the NMC register on 2 August 2026. The profile lists her most recent outcome as erasure — struck off the register — decided on 13 February 2026 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council following a substantive hearing.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings in this section come from a Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise panel determination, which decided the charges on the balance of probabilities. Charges found proved are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions; nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one, and this determination states none.
Between February and April 2021, the panel found, Kearsey failed to provide adequate care to three vulnerable residents of the care home where she worked. The charges described failures across the basics of nursing practice: record keeping, the completion of DATIX incident reports, wound management documentation, and appropriate care planning. Multiple charges of misconduct were proved in respect of each of the three residents, and the panel found 17 charges proved in total.
The panel weighed aggravating and mitigating factors. In aggravation it cited a pattern of misconduct over a period of time; failure to comply with undertakings; failure to engage with the proceedings; limited evidence of insight into the failings; conduct which put patients at risk of suffering harm; and misconduct relating to vulnerable residents. In mitigation it noted early admissions at local level, some level of apology at local level, and some evidence that the Home environment was challenging and going through a transition of ownership, which meant the appropriate policies that may have supported Kearsey were not in place.
The substantive hearing opened on 11 February 2026 and closed on 13 February 2026. Kearsey did not engage with the proceedings. The panel found her fitness to practise currently impaired, concluding that she had failed to comply with undertakings and had provided no evidence of insight, reflection or remediation since the events of 2021. It determined that a striking-off order was “the only appropriate and proportionate sanction”, and the order was imposed on 13 February 2026.
MedicWatch’s plain-English summary of the determination states that the NMC found the registered adult nurse failed to provide adequate care to three vulnerable care home residents in 2021, with multiple failings in record keeping, incident reporting and care planning, that 17 charges were proved and fitness to practise impaired, and that she provided no evidence of insight or remediation. The record explains that erasure means the regulator directed removal from the register, with the decision setting out when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage, no public statements from Kearsey, and no reported reactions from residents’ families, colleagues or campaign groups. MedicWatch states that it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings and simply records them, so the panel’s determination stands as the only public account of the events. The concrete consequence was erasure: her removal from the NMC register, recorded on MedicWatch with the outcome Erasure (struck off the register). The determination page was added to the MedicWatch record on 4 May 2026. Beyond the regulator’s decision itself, no wider public controversy is documented in the published material.
Current Status
Kearsey is erased from the register and remains struck off. The striking-off order was imposed on 13 February 2026. Her practitioner profile, last verified against the NMC register on 2 August 2026, continues to record her as “Erased from the register at last register check” and lists no outcome after the February 2026 erasure, meaning that as of the last register check she no longer appeared on the register. No interim order is recorded in the published material, and no appeal or restoration application appears in the published record.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure ends Kearsey’s ability to work as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom; removal from the NMC register is a bar on registered nursing practice, and her registration no longer confers the right to practise. The panel’s finding that she provided no evidence of insight, reflection or remediation would weigh heavily against any future restoration application, and the published record contains none. The record also gives no information about her employment or personal circumstances after the order; whether she has since worked in any unregistered capacity is not addressed in the published material.