Khaled represented L, a nurse, at a 14-day substantive fitness to practise hearing. The charges L faced were a mixture of misconduct allegations, including that L had incorrectly administered vaccinations to children, failed to conduct the necessary checks and keep accurate records, dishonestly breached her duty of candour and made unprofessional remarks to a child’s family.
Of the 18 charges brought, two were ‘no case to answer’, five were found not proved, nine were proved by admission and two were found proved by the panel, who went on to find that L’s fitness to practise was impaired. At the sanction stage the NMC sought a 12-month suspension order with a review, but following Khaled’s submissions, the panel determined that such a sanction would be excessively punitive, and that a 6-week suspension with a review would be sufficient to uphold public confidence and mark the seriousness of the misconduct. The panel declined to impose an interim order, allowing L to continue working over the 28-day period before the sanction came into effect.
