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nurses convicted of sedating elderly patients for a quiet shift!

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Germanshepherdsmum Fri 06-Oct-23 17:14:45

My ex mil worked in a big hospital. She regularly stole dressings etc and thought nothing of it- said everyone did it.

Primrose53 Fri 06-Oct-23 17:05:23

Vile women and they should get heavy sentences. My friend has just retired as an NHS dentist working in hospitals and her own practice. We were discussing the Lucy Letby case as her daughter had her babies in the same hospital just after Letby was arrested.

I was a bit careful with what I said because I didn’t know how she felt about other NHS staff but she said “Having spent all my working life in the NHS I think too many people still see nurses as “angels”. I have worked in hospitals where I have come across some of the most dreadful nurses who really should not be working with people in any capacity because they do not have a caring bone in their body.”

Callistemon21 Fri 06-Oct-23 12:09:58

Namsnanny

My mother insisted the staff were stealing and selling drugs when she was in hospital 8 years ago.
We thought she was delirious, but who knows?

So easy for staff to say a patient is suffering from delirium to cover their actions.

Namsnanny Fri 06-Oct-23 12:08:06

My mother insisted the staff were stealing and selling drugs when she was in hospital 8 years ago.
We thought she was delirious, but who knows?

Callistemon21 Fri 06-Oct-23 11:12:34

Yes, surely a prison sentence.

They also stole medication from the 'corrupt' ward at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, with the trial hearing claims that '95 per cent of the staff' would take drugs from the unit, sometimes on a recreational basis

There must surely be further investigations!

Anniebach Fri 06-Oct-23 10:23:39

Surely a prison sentence

lemsip Fri 06-Oct-23 10:16:00

Just a short paragraph

She swapped vile messages with her partner in crime, Charlotte Wilmot, including one in which Hudson boasted of sedating an elderly patient 'to within an inch of her life'. The nurses were warned that they both face jail.

They also stole medication from the 'corrupt' ward at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, with the trial hearing claims that '95 per cent of the staff' would take drugs from the unit, sometimes on a recreational basis

lemsip Fri 06-Oct-23 10:14:05

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12599943/Coroner-probing-EIGHT-deaths-NHS-ward-pair-dangerous-callous-nursing-staff-drugged-ill-treated-patients-face-jail.html.

this is a dreadful case of patients put at risk by two nurses who thought it was fun to text each other about keeping patients quiet. sentences to follow have a read.