Consensual Panel Determination News Today

Each month, Nursing Times will consider a real-life case heard by the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness to practise panel. We’ll give you the facts of the case, as presented to the panel, and you’ll get a chance to consider what decision you would have made.

Alison Watts, a nurse in Heckmondwike, has been struck off for performing hundreds of smear tests while unqualified A LOCAL nurse with "deep-seated issues" around dishonesty has been struck off after carrying out hundreds of smear tests on women over a two-year period, while she was unqualified. Alison Watts, who worked at Undercliffe Surgery in Heckmondwike, was charged with carrying out 461 cervical screenings between June 2017 and November 2017 while unqualified to do so by the Nursing ...