Sex Offender Doctors ‘Free To Treat Patients’
Eleven doctors are still free to work in the NHS despite being convicted of sex and child pornography offences, The Daily Telegraph can reveal today.
Read MoreEleven doctors are still free to work in the NHS despite being convicted of sex and child pornography offences, The Daily Telegraph can reveal today.
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Read MoreTwo women who ran a nursing home where elderly residents were neglected and abused were found guilty of misconduct yesterday. A hearing was told that their shocking negligence had left two people at death’s door.
{mosimage}They included a 79-year-old woman who needed urgent hospital treatment for malnutrition.
An official inspection dossier exposed widespread humiliation and abuse of residents at the private Laurel Bank Nursing Home in Halifax, which charged £445 a week.
Linda Parker (left) was cautioned while Lily Leatham (right) was left weighing 5st 1lb
Staff were said to have punched, threatened, sworn and aimed lewd taunts at elderly men and women.
Incontinent residents were left to sit in a “loopy lounge” all day, or abandoned in their beds in an insanitary and undignified state.
Yesterday, a professional conduct committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Council struck deputy matron Elisabeth Uttley, 62, off the register.
Now retired, she refused to turn up for the four-day hearing and was said to have never expressed any regrets.
But her boss, home manager Patricia Parker, 59, escaped with a formal caution for five years after admitting failing to provide adequate care.
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