Nursing and Midwifery Council abandons cases against nurse Jennifer Melle

Christian nurse vindicated after regulator pursued her over ‘misgendering’ pedophile patient

The UK’s Nursing and Midwifery Council concluded Jennifer Melle acted without malice, breached no confidentiality, and should face no restrictions after months of investigations.

NMC drops case against nurse in pronouns dispute

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has dropped its case against Jennifer Melle, the nurse suspended for talking to the media about how her NHS trust treated her after she misgendered a trans patient. Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust confidentially settled its high-profile tribunal case with Melle in April, just before an employment tribunal case was to be heard where she was pursuing claims for harassment, discrimination, …

Nursing and Midwifery Council abandons cases against nurse Jennifer Melle

A Christian nurse who was reported to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as an alleged ‘risk to the public’ after declining to use the preferred gender identity of a paedophile patient, and later for speaking publicly about her ordeal, has had the cases against her dropped. The NMC climbdown follows months of political and public pressure over Ms Melle’s treatment, and she has been supported throughout her ordeal by lawyers at the Christian…