Zeriya Pamela Gandifere

Introduction

Zeriya Pamela Gandifere is a nurse who was registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the statutory regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom, under registration number 18F2034E. Following a review hearing held and decided on 2 September 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee ordered that she be struck off the register, with the striking-off order taking effect at the end of 15 October 2026. The case behind that outcome involved earlier findings that she had slept on duty, failed to carry out one-to-one observations of a resident, and made a dishonest observation record — findings that included exposing the resident to an unreasonable risk of harm and/or contributing to the resident’s death. The review panel concluded that her fitness to practise remained impaired and that there was no realistic prospect of a return to unrestricted practice.

Background Information

Gandifere’s professional registration was with the NMC, which maintains the register of nurses entitled to practise in the United Kingdom and determines cases where a nurse’s fitness to practise is said to fall short of required standards. Her case was decided by the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee, the panel that adjudicates such allegations.

The original case concerned health matters that were considered in private, sleeping on duty, failing to carry out one-to-one observations of a resident, and making a dishonest observation record. The original findings included exposing the resident to an unreasonable risk of harm and/or contributing to the resident’s death. The health-related particulars were heard in private and are not disclosed in the published determination; this page does not set them out and does not speculate about them.

The September 2026 hearing was a review rather than a fresh hearing of the charges. Under UK fitness-to-practise procedure, a review panel does not re-try the original allegations; it assesses whether fitness to practise remains impaired in light of the earlier findings and of anything that has happened since, and it selects from the sanctions available to it. At a review of this kind those options included further suspension, allowing the registration to lapse while the impairment finding stood, or a striking-off order — and the determination records which of them the panel considered and rejected.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against Zeriya Gandifere — sleeping on duty, failing one-to-one observations of a resident, and a dishonest observation record — were made by the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee, which proved the charges after a hearing; they are regulator findings, not criminal convictions, and no criminal allegation is recorded on this page. Her health-related particulars were heard in private and are not disclosed here.

The original case, decided before the September 2026 review, concerned health matters considered in private, sleeping on duty, failing to carry out one-to-one observations of a resident, and making a dishonest observation record. The original findings included exposing the resident to an unreasonable risk of harm and/or contributing to the resident’s death. That “and/or” wording is the panel’s own: the published record states the finding in those alternative terms, and it is repeated here exactly as the panel framed it rather than restated as a conclusion the panel itself did not draw. No criminal conviction is recorded in the determination, and the health-related particulars heard in private remain undisclosed in the published material.

At the review hearing on 2 September 2026, the panel found continuing impairment on public protection and public interest grounds. It had no evidence of developed insight, remediation, reflection or improved practice, and it noted Gandifere’s non-engagement with the process. It found no realistic prospect of a return to unrestricted practice, and it rejected both lesser outcomes available to it: further suspension, and allowing the registration to lapse with the impairment finding in place. It instead imposed a striking-off order, to take effect at the end of 15 October 2026.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published determination records the panel’s reasoning rather than any wider public response. The outcome rested on public protection and the public interest, on the absence of any evidence of developed insight, remediation, reflection or improved practice, and on Gandifere’s non-engagement. No social-media reaction, public statement, or comment from Gandifere or any employer is recorded in the published material, and none is invented here. The concrete consequences are those the regulator imposed: the striking-off order effective at the end of 15 October 2026, the continuing impairment finding, and the closure of the lesser options of further suspension or lapse of registration. MedicWatch, an independent record service that aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators, published an editorial record of the determination on 2 September 2026 and updated it on 22 September 2026.

Current Status

Gandifere is struck off the NMC register, with the striking-off order taking effect at the end of 15 October 2026; her NMC registration number is 18F2034E. The decision date is 2 September 2026, the same day the hearing opened. The private health particulars from the original case remain undisclosed in the published determination. The published record does not state that any appeal has been lodged, and it notes that the official register should be checked for a practitioner’s current registration status.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order ends Gandifere’s registration as a nurse with the NMC once it takes effect at the end of 15 October 2026. The panel’s conclusions explain why the outcome was terminal rather than a further temporary measure: it found no evidence of developed insight, remediation, reflection or improved practice, noted her non-engagement, and concluded there was no realistic prospect of a return to unrestricted practice — reasoning that led it to decline further suspension and to reject allowing the registration to lapse with the impairment finding in place, in favour of the more definitive striking-off order. The severity with which the original panel had framed the case — an unreasonable risk of harm and/or a contribution to the resident’s death, in its own alternative formulation — formed the backdrop against which the review panel made that assessment. Because the health particulars were heard in private, nothing further can be said about that strand of the case.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “NMC orders Zeriya Pamela Gandifere struck off after review,” September 2, 2026 — source