her fraud was "sophisticated and planned"
A woman who faked her qualifications to land a senior nursing job caring for premature babies has been banned from the profession.
Tanya Nasir, aged 45, from Hertfordshire, was appointed ward manager at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend in 2019.
She secured the role after falsely claiming she was a highly qualified neonatal nurse and an Army combat medic.
An internal probe revealed she had fabricated documents and lied about international humanitarian work, military service, and specialist clinical experience.
She served in the role for four months before hospital staff uncovered inconsistencies in her nursing registration.
Her application claimed a qualification date that did not match official records.
A deeper investigation exposed a fake reference email, sent from a hacked NHS account belonging to a former colleague in London.
Further checks were made with four other universities she claimed to have obtained qualifications from.
Three confirmed she never attended and the fourth confirmed that she did attend but did not have any record of her being awarded one of the qualifications outlined in her application.
In October 2024, Nasir was jailed for five years after being found guilty of nine counts of fraud and false representation.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has now struck her off the professional register.
Its disciplinary panel ruled that Nasir’s deception placed patients at “a real risk of significant harm, which could have had catastrophic consequences”.
The panel said her fraud was “sophisticated and planned” and reflected “deep-seated attitudinal issues”.
At a fitness to practise hearing on May 23, 2025, which Nasir did not attend, NMC representative Naa-Adjeley Barnor said she had shown “no evidence of insight or remorse for her actions”.
Ms Barnor added:
“There is a significant risk that Ms Nasir would repeat such behaviour in the future.”
She also noted that Nasir had previously been convicted in 2010 for fraudulently claiming welfare benefits.
The panel concluded that Nasir had tried to cover her tracks once she realised the truth was emerging. They agreed that only the harshest sanction was appropriate.
Ms Barnor said: “The only appropriate and proportionate sanction would be a striking-off order.”
Nasir also falsely claimed to have worked in intensive care, A&E, children’s palliative medicine, and with international charities including the Red Cross and Oxfam.
She is now barred from working as a nurse in the UK.
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