Kay Shemirani claimed Covid pandemic was 'scam' is struck off

Due to her comments, Kay Shemirani was no longer a safe or effective nurse, according to a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise panel.

The panel found a series of statements from Ms Shemirani, an aesthetic nurse and independent prescriber in Sussex, had fallen "seriously short of the standards expected of a registered nurse and amounted to misconduct".

The claims were made on social media and at protests, as well as mainstream news outlets such as BBC Panorama, Sky News, and ITV Wales.

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Ms Shemirani's comments included denying there was a global Covid pandemic and that vaccines had been "rushed through" because "they want to kill you".

She also reportedly attributed symptoms of Covid-19 to radiation from 5G technology and described vaccines as poison.

Kay Shemirani had thousands of followers on Twitter before her account was deleted

The panel also found an incident where she encouraged members of the public not to socially distance but to “get hugging” and stated that a person ill with Covid-19 may help other people by coughing on them.

The NMC panel also pointed to comments made about other nurses, healthcare professionals, the NHS and the NMC.

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These included claims that nurses are currently murdering patients, comparing them with healthcare professionals who cooperated in the Nazi extermination and euthanasia programmes of the 1930s and 1940s.

She also reportedly described healthcare professionals and vaccination teams as needing to be renamed death squads.

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The panel said Ms Shemirani had suggested that nine out of every ten nurses are "crap" and that hospitals practise "bullsh** medicine".

Ms Shemirani told the Nursing Times that she had been subjected to a "kangaroo court" and had already resigned from the NMC at the time of her hearing.

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The NMC report says: "The panel determined that Mrs Shemirani’s misconduct was not merely a serious departure from the standards expected of a registered nurse and a serious breach of professional standards, it was fundamentally incompatible with her remaining on the NMC register.

"In the panel’s judgment, to allow someone who had behaved in this way to maintain her NMC registration would undoubtedly undermine public confidence in the nursing profession and in the NMC as a regulatory body."