Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise panel hears that theatre practitioner Julie Deuchars submitted 45 timesheets for shifts she did not work over an eight-week period, and signed them off herself, claiming thousands of pounds. She later failed to respond to an NHS Counter Fraud Authority investigation. Ms Deuchars could not explain her actions and told the panel she was ‘so ashamed’ of what she had done and had brought ‘disgrace’ on the nursing profession. The panel said her actions showed premeditated dishonesty, but that there was no suggestion of patient harm.