Zdzislaw Jozef Reterski

Introduction

Zdzislaw Jozef Reterski is a nurse who was registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the statutory regulator of nursing in the United Kingdom (registration number 06K0048C). In April 2026, a Fitness to Practise Committee panel of the NMC found that he had slept while on duty at a care home, falsified residents’ daily records to show that he had administered morning medications and made record entries at times when he was not on duty, and had failed at a second care home to give prescribed medications to several residents. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and directed that he be struck off the register — the sanction formally known as erasure — with an 18-month interim suspension order to follow.

The decision was issued on 15 April 2026 at the end of a substantive hearing that had begun on 13 April 2026. Reterski did not attend the hearing, and the panel noted his lack of engagement with the Fitness to Practise process, the absence of insight or remorse, and what it described as a real risk of repetition.

Background Information

The NMC maintains the register of nurses, midwives and nursing associates entitled to practise in the United Kingdom. Where concerns are raised about a practitioner’s fitness to practise, a panel hears the evidence at a hearing, decides each charge on the balance of probabilities, and then considers whether the proved conduct amounts to misconduct and whether fitness to practise is currently impaired. Sanctions range from a caution order through conditions of practice and suspension to striking off, which removes the practitioner’s entry from the register entirely.

The allegations against Reterski related to his work as a registered nurse at two care homes during the summer of 2020. At the first, Windyridge Care Home, the concerns centred on night-duty record entries and his conduct while on shift. At the second, Cedar Care Home, they concerned a series of medication-round failures spread over more than a month. The panel that heard the case in April 2026 considered charges covering both settings.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings described here were made on the balance of probabilities by a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel — the civil standard applied by regulatory tribunals — and are not criminal convictions; no court conviction of Zdzislaw Jozef Reterski is recorded in this decision.

The first group of charges concerned Windyridge Care Home on or around 25 June 2020. The panel found that Reterski made entries in the daily records of one or more residents timed between 04:00 and 06:30 when he was not on duty, and that he signed to indicate he had administered morning medications when he was not on duty at the times those medications were due. It further found that he slept whilst on duty. His conduct in falsifying the entries was admitted as dishonest.

The second group of charges concerned Cedar Care Home between 17 July and 24 August 2020. The panel found that Reterski failed to administer prescribed medications — Omeprazole, Senna, Donepezil and Mirtazapine — to five named residents on specified dates, and failed to administer, or to record the administration of, Memantine to a sixth resident. A further allegation of dishonesty in respect of the Cedar charges was found not proved.

On the question of misconduct, the panel found Charges 1, 2, 3a (i-v), 3b(i), 3c and 3d proved, and Charges 3b(ii), 4a and 4b not proved. It concluded that Charges 1, 2, 3a and 3b(i) amounted to misconduct, citing sleeping while in sole charge of a care home with junior staff on duty, the deliberate falsification of patient records linked to patient care, and admitted dishonesty. Charges 3c and 3d, the medication failures at Cedar Care Home, were found not to amount to misconduct, the panel treating them as isolated medication-round errors.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The panel found Reterski’s fitness to practise currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. In reaching that conclusion it noted that he had undertaken no recent training, had not engaged with the Fitness to Practise process, and had shown no remorse and no insight, leaving what the panel described as a real risk of repetition.

In mitigation the panel identified only some admission of the facts. The aggravating factors it listed were extensive: conduct which deliberately or recklessly put people receiving care at risk of harm; deliberate breaches of the Code; a pattern of misconduct over a period of some months; failure to attend hearings or to engage in the process without good reason; an absence of insight; the vulnerability of the residents receiving care; and premeditated behaviour. Against that background the panel determined that the proportionate sanction was removal from the register, and it made an 18-month interim suspension order to cover the period before the decision takes effect.

Current Status

As of the decision date of 15 April 2026, Zdzislaw Jozef Reterski has been struck off the NMC register: the panel directed that his name be erased, which means he may no longer practise as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. The decision sets out when the erasure direction takes effect and the appeal provisions that apply, and an 18-month interim suspension order was imposed in the meantime. The official NMC register remains the authoritative source for his current registration status.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Erasure from the register ends a nurse’s ability to work in registered nursing roles in the UK, where employers and agencies check the NMC register before engaging registered staff. For Reterski, the removal followed findings spanning two care homes in 2020 — falsified night records and sleeping on duty at one, and a month-long series of failures to give residents their prescribed medications at the other — compounded at the hearing by his non-attendance and lack of engagement, which left the panel with no evidence of insight or remediation to weigh against the risk it had identified.

The outcome is a public record: MedicWatch, an independent record service that aggregates the publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators, lists the result as erasure and records the decision as taken on 15 April 2026, with the case added to its record on 26 April 2026. Beyond the loss of his registration, the published determination records no other consequences.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Zdzislaw Jozef Reterski — Struck off the register · 15 April 2026,” determination page, NMC Fitness to Practise Committee substantive hearing, 15 April 2026.source
• MedicWatch, “Zdzislaw Jozef Reterski — Struck off the register | Nursing and Midwifery Council 06K0048C,” practitioner profile.source