Nurse and healthcare worker jailed for unlawfully drugging patients
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- čas přidán 13. 12. 2023
- A nurse and a healthcare worker have been jailed after being found guilty of unlawfully drugging patients.
Catherine Hudson, 54, was given seven years and two months for the ill-treatment of stroke patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in Lancashire, while Charlotte Wilmot was jailed for three years.
Sentencing the pair at Preston Crown Court, Judge Robert Altham said their duty was to protect and care for their patients, instead they "exploited them for an easy shift, for amusement".
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Happens more than people realize.
I’m sure there are some good nurses out there, but having spent 4 months on a burn ward two years ago, my trust in NHS nurses is about zero. The bullying that I witnessed, and was a victim of, made me wish that I had died in the fire. I have experienced more PTSD symptoms related to the cruel things those evil gang of nurses said and did than anything relating to having been literally on fire and suffering third degree burns to 25% of my body.
I can only assume that there is an extremely low bar when it comes to the people being recruited for nursing jobs. The NHS seems to be attracting some very malicious bullies who get their kicks out of having power over vulnerable people who can’t fight back. I understand that the entire hospital where I was admitted is currently being investigated for institutionalised bullying amongst the staff there, but no word as yet if they’re going to do anything about how the nasty nurses systematically target and bully their patients. If I’m ever badly injured in the future and have any choice in the matter, I’d prefer to refuse treatment rather than be an inpatient at a UK NHS hospital again.
Yeah tons of horrid bullies in NHS
I have been in a critical condition in Leeds general infirmary twice and i am very grateful for the life saving care and support I received but I am very sad to say this but I was left a solid gold sovereign ring from my grandad who passed away when I was only a toddler and this was in our family and passed down through generations so when I was 17 I was handed the sovereign by my granny and I had this on my finger constantly and never took it off but whilst I was still in intensive care the ring was either removed unlawfully or maybe even fallen off my finger from weight loss but I can honestly say that devastated is an understatement and if only I knew where I would find this ring back today 🙏🏻🙏🏻😢x
Decent staff welcome the complaints, so these individuals are flushed out of the service. They are an utter disgrace, the patient should always be the priority, and a decent nurse will fight to get the best for their patients. It saddens me to hear these stories.
Nurses have always been evil
Very proud of the student nurse who raised this issue!!!!
Dij: who was it?
@@joline2730 the student nurse wasn’t named; I believe it was confidential
Isn't there supposed to be a system that is used to 'whistleblow', where privacy of the person is protected? If not, that is it's self another allegation that needs to be made and investigated. All nurses should be trained on that.
There should be more decent,caring,moral whistle blowers working in hospitals and care homes.
It is disgusting that our health care has gone down the proverbial and something drastic needs to be done about it.
I speak as a medic.
This is why all patients should wear a body camera when staying at hospital.
Lmao
That's actually a good idea. Maybe a hidden camera
My Mum was an A/E Sister at BVH for 12 years before she passed away. She would be heartbroken by the actions of these rogue nursing staff, evil to the core.
These people bring the nursing profession into disrepute. It turns my stomach to watch how these vulnerable patients were so badly abused. As a nursing sister for many years, and then a specialist nurse (now retired), it sickens me. Patients should be nursed with care and dignity, and I am so proud of the student nurse for speaking out, and reporting this disgusting practice. Thankfully, we are not all like these vile individuals.
What happened to their Supervisors / Managers here?
Are we surprised 😢
This is why I never left my sons side when he was in hospital
me too
It's not long enough the NHS has gone so far down hill and after seeing the way my daughter was treated this year when she nearly died I have no confidence in the NHS any more
Blame the Tory scumbags. Use your vote
I never once thought the NHS was full of great people , heroes with best intentions for their customers , i always cringe at peoples naivety that think that . The NHS is also sued once every 40 mins costing 7 billion a year but that's only for the negligence cases that we hear about . Those sentences were a joke
The NHS needs binning. The joke is the government supposedly deduct NI from wages for the NHS and state pensions, but it's just another form of tax. I'd rather pay health insurance.
@@StratsRUs, the Tories are a joke, but make no mistake, New LIEbour are just as responsible.
and yet people all but worship the nhs. it's unbelievably overrated
I work as a nurse, and I am so glad to see this sentencing. There is ZERO accountability for terrible behaviour like this from nurses. The whole health care system has a culture of poor treatment of patients. There are so many stuck up and cruel nurses in the field that look down on good nurses who actually care about and advocate for patients. The whole system is a mess from Management, down to support staff and even in the nursing school system.
This goes on all the time in ages care facilities, especially with dementia patients.
Why a low sentence I don't understand it
I swear it’s same woman who was looking after my mum 5ish year ago she recorded her screaming at dieing cancer patients to be quiet and stop crying .your keeping other people awake , and telling her she looks like homeless person and to go wash her self . The woman died a week later. Plus my moms money in her draw kept disappearing and when I made a complaint they tried stopping Me from coming to see her . Or they would of given her something that would of knocked her out by the time I got to the hospital and my mother was lieing even tho I had to bring money and clothes 6 times because they would vanish .
That was hard to read mate, these people are entrusted to take of the elderly and vulnerable. Let’s hope she never sees daylight again.
'she recorded her screaming at dying cancer patients to be quiet and stop crying' that is the most fcked up thing I have read in years. To treat someone like that on the verge of death is sadistic
I'm an ex-nurse. I left nursing due to the corruption and lack of education. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but I assumed it only happened in North America.
It's the same in every job
Law is corrupt, management, social work....just about everywhere...there are cameras on nurses 24/7 but no one regulates the managers, or the regulator.
God knows!!
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Usual suspects, no sympathy, no empathy mind boggling..
Was there a Clinical Nurse Manager assigned to the ward? If so, how did all of this go unknown to him/her?
The hospital pharmacy should not have dispensed Zoplicone or any other medication without checking against the patient's drug chart. The pharmacy is equally responsible for dispensing such a large quantity of Zopiclone, which should have raised an immediate red flag.
Who is the Medical directorate? Surely be to God, they should know what is happening in all the wards under their management.
So it's not just the nurses. All parties involved are equally culpable.
The pharmacy should have done Audits of medication requested and dispensed and unused medication returned to the pharmacy. They also owe a duty of care to the patients.
Three complaints were made to PALS by a patient's family member and no action was taken nor did they reply to the respondent.
The clinical nurse manager of the ward, the person in charge of the Medical directorate, the pharmacy, PALS, the Director of nursing, and other staff members should all be made accountable for their actions.
The specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service Karen Tonge made no mention of any of the above parties owing a duty of care.
"Different strokes for different folks"
I cannot understand how ALL the staff on the ward were aware and went along with it. Shocking to think that it took a student nurse to raise serious concerns. I would not hesitate for a second if I had any suspicions that anything untowardly was going on. This is unbelievable. My personal opinion is that the nurse in question and the Band 5 nurse lack insight as to the seriousness of their actions/inactions.
We go to work and work to the best of our ability.
They need better guidelines for selecting nursing students . Real bad and unfit people are getting selected .The Royal College of Nursing is answerable .
I am very grateful that every single NHS nurse/healthcare assistant, I have ever come into contact with, has been exceptional at their job and so caring. These two ex-workers are bad apples in a blossoming tree. Sending love to all the families effected. x
I think the sentences are about right for theses offences . BUT why are Senior managers within the NHS not in the dock with them they must have known this was going on YES!! again in the NHS the little guy is off too jail whilst the top brass still driving there tax funded flash cars
No. They wouldn't have known
@@taniabriscoe6493it's their job to know
This kind of behaviour is also commonplace among doctors and especially consultants.
I used to live in San Francisco USA. My housemate Jay was a nurse in the psych ward. Jay observed that the second and third shifts had the highest number of emergency sedation medications (meds forced upon the patients). Patients walking out of their room to the front desk to ask for snacks or water were threatened by the staff with sedation if they did not return to their room immediately. The nurses could then return to their phone chats or games they were playing. These patients are just seen and treated like heads of cabbage and they have no credibility if they complain because they are mental patients. The nurses are not likely stealing medication but they are criminally abusing the system to keep the patients sedated so that the nurses can have quiet lazy shift while getting paid outrageous hourly wages. Each emergency med incident is documented but no one cares enough to properly investigate and force change.
Deport them! Now!!!
We are, His Majesty's pleasure for a prison sentence
Mr Hancock and the cough treatment gang are having a great old time. Something is very wrong
Where did the drugs come from - all drugs issued should be personally prescribed and any 'emergency' issued drugs should be confirmed and approved the next day. So pharmacist allocated to the ward and others are also to blame.
glad they got busted !!
I saw the same thing happen on Morton ward of the hartington unit in Chesterfield on the night shift a few years back. Patients being drugged and dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. It was truly terrifying and affects me still to this day.
As far as I'm aware no one ever got caught or brought to justice
Until they stop outsourcing the care workers , things will not change. Nursing homes are cutting costs in order to make profits, I worked in a nursing home over twenty years ago and they started to outsource the nursing staff to work in the facility. Standards pretty much went down and I left afterwards as I could see where it was going.
As for the hospitals they are run by bean counters and some nurses shouldn’t even be working in hospitals.
Scary stuff.
What about the manager on this ward/supervisor,
Why does the reporter (woman) smile when talking about such a sick incident. Its not something a normal erson does is it when discussing such a topic.....
How do Nurses get hold of drugs without the doctors and consultants consent? Also, aren't regular blood tests taken in hospitals especially with patients who aren't awake? Doctors and consultants check patients everyday, check their pupils, read their vitals, and look at all the medication they are given, so I really don't know how nurses can drug patients without the doctors finding out? I have a feeling a family member of mine was drugged up in hospital, to be honest, the doctors were doing all the lying, but the nurses were doing all the caring. Doctors just wanted us to say family member had covid and was dead, we never agreed. 8 weeks later just woke up. Also, got a strange call from the Pharmacuetical department, but they hung up because they got scared.
Exactly, all medications should be strictly monitored so any discrepancies are noticed early on.
It's the nurses who hold the keys to the drug cupboards.They always have access.Doctors don't have access to drugs.They have to ask the nurses to open the drug cupboards for them.
Nurses have access to the drugs, but they just can't go in the cupboards and take drugs, everything administered and recorded goes by the doctors orders. There is a thin called stock checking. The time they give insulin, check blood..etc is all set by doctors. There is always a doctor on each ward too, even if they hide in their little office. The doctors are insane.
They keep medication from patients and pocket them.
The only people with access to the drugs on the ward,are the nurses.Doctors are not allowed near drug cupboards without a nurses say so.Doctors do not check patients daily.
🎉once has an adult I have stayed for any length of time in hospital and I can say the nursing staff were truly awful. In one instance I was denied my asthma inhaler for 10 hours for no reason other than incompetence and indifference.
Honestly, with a criminal conviction as these, who going to employ them upon when being released from jail?
Probably happens way more often than we think.
This is rather like jailing the homeless drug dealer while the billionaire supplier goes on his merry way.
Regulatory lawyers lie all the time about health and social care professionals, and the lawyers aren't held to account as the sra is Corrie to the core!
££££££
God knows
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I'd hate to be them when its revealed to other inmates what these two vile 'people' have done to helpless victims, karma has a way of evening things out.
They gave them extra sleeping tablets.It's hardly a murder case,for Gods sake.
@@nonsensetalk8953 Drugging vulnerable people and laughing about it is a despicable crime, its no small thing.
There are more nurses that do this. I wish I gathered evidence at the time
I'm sorry for there families loss 🏴🙏
The NHS is no longer fit for purpose that is the real Problem.
Sometimes they are very abrupt to visitors as well.
I notice that the NHS is being highlighted,just want to say that private health care is no better .Particularly with staff being bullied.Of course a positive spin is put on the public facing service but don't dig deeper.
No safeguarding, no public scrutiny, no organisational learning.
When I was in hospital the nurses were like angels to me and very recently someone very close to me had a spell in hospital and couldn't praise the nurses and doctors highly enough. Don't tar everyone with the same brush as these evil 'nurses'
But still no Cameras in these places & hospitals the vulnerable need cameras even more now
Within the ranks of those who swore to do mo harm are these vile and disgusting people! How many cases like this do not become known to the general public!
They should if both got much longer sentences.
Disgusting
The Tories were doing it in care homes during the pandemic.
They killed my friends mother !!!
The Tory Cabinet should get jailed too for Culpable Homicide!!😮😮😮😮
Its Labour who create all the chaos in the system, think why.
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Well since the Take Care of Maya trial people should not be surprised how sadistic some health "care" providers actually are.
Deport
Now do the entire medical establishment for the pandemic scam
Good point
Misconduct in public office again
Both nurses had copies of ' One flew over the Cuckoos Nest ' at home.
i was treated ill by mental health staff i remember being in a psych hospital being overdose on lorazepam and haloperidol i was given more then prescribed and for a whole month i was throwing up my guts even blood at one time and then 28 day of suffering i was on leave and got a knife and when into the woods to killl myself or throw myself down a flight of stairs hoping to break my neck thankfully i did not but i went from normal person to actively wanting to kill myself when in side a psych hospital i still suffer from the trauma to this day and glad its being exposed but its only the tip of the iceberg sadly.
This is an appalling case. Absolutely shocking example of a toxic culture developing on an NHS ward. The way they viewed patients and their families as inconveniences and as enemies was profoundly callous and cruel. My heart goes out to the patients and their families. It must have been terrifying at times.
The sedation of ‘Troublesome’ patients is nothing new it has been going on for years in care homes. It has always been done in prisons & mental institutions. Sheesh, they used to give babies a shot of whisky in their night time bottles in maternity wards to make them sleep back in the 1950’s.
Much different times
When a patient/ resident is highly aggressive and violent its safer for them to be sedated, they cant hurt themselves and more importantly, they cant hurt the staff trying to help. Having said that my work doesnt sedate anyone and the staff are always being physically assaulted, 1 of my colleagues had her nose broke and teeth knocked out by a 6.6 man who she was only trying to help by turning the tv on which he had asked her to do. My work isnt and doesn't sedate we legally arent allowed to.
Nhs and social care managers are not regulated, so they escape accountability. If managers were regulated, the regulators would get fewer referrals from managers, so the lawyers suck up to managers so that managers will create cases for the greedy lawyers/regulatirs.
At least thats how it wirks in Cambridgeshire, UK.
What do the defendants say?
They are animals, I’ve been a qualified nurse for 41yr now and all l want is the best care for my patients, they should be ashamed for how they treated vulnerable patients and for bringing the nursing profession to this level.
I am horrified at what happened. I can’t believe that the medicine was not locked up! Very irresponsible of the hospital. These so-called nurses are evil, they should have been given much longer sentences!
What is going on in dementia homes?
For those people that say women aren't capable of being evil or violent, let me present a textbook example of HOW women's violence presents all too often, but goes unnoticed because it's not overtly obvious. THIS is the type of violence that is typical to women: quiet, subtle, secretive, under the guise of innocence and caring. I'm a woman, and have been a victim of a mother who displayed these characteristics perfectly, while nobody who knew us noticed for years.
Drugs/medication is prescribed by Drs, so how could the nurses possibly overdose someone?
Those are good workers similars maybe to ones today
Racially profile the staff.
And lets face it a very ,very short sentence
Typical so called British justice strikes again
Yup!! Usual suspect
All section of the NHS is not perfect, I always feel arkward when in Hospital, I face Racism
Now how about all those Postmasters that got jailed and fined, lost their lovely hood and their community standing and many even lost their homes? And all because of crappy software!
How many collective years of prison did they get?????
I thought by nature women were supposed to be kind, caring, nurturing. That is what society keeps telling us. I keep seeing news articals of cruelty by women. On the flip side i also see kind men but they are undervalued. Maybe time to re-evaluate things.
Agreed!
Talents and skills in Healthcare are the only thing they look at. Maybe start having psych exams as a condition of employment. Too many cold hearted snakes being allowed around our most vulnerable.
Same people always asking for pay rises paid by us the taxpayer . We keep clapping ..
If these were men the sentences would be far more severe. That’s a fact.
No
what evs give me the sevs
So many now going private. Lucky those who can afford to though
図々しい
It was probably the style and colour of her hair that sent the stroke victims west...
This post is concerning bullying and abuse and your comment is to make fun of someone's hair? Logic.
@@Michael-cz6obM'lady
What a nutty comment
@@Michael-cz6obHas a comment been made to a person directly? Has the person read it? Slightly of colour remarks at best
@@teresab7575 He's literally telling everyone out there that it's OK to make fun of someone's style or colour :s A grown up would focus on the issue at hand not encourage it to others
No mention of any male nurses😅.
Go catch the others millions!
Decades It’s always seemed off the elders ward was quiet and always smelt like the staff put sleepy gas to keep them sleeping
1:12 Cockatoo.
They should be in jail for life
They took “work smart, not hard” to levels it should never go to.
My mum.s dead my dad's dad's loads of parents of our generation are all dead my brother is dead my cousin is maybe dead are any of the dead gonna say turn up alive
Not the only place they NHS have abused there possession
Mary seacole house Winston green
I was a visitor
Glad i was dirty trash i should name the staff
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Lucy mother ?
Pyschopaths
Now do the medical profession in its entirety for the jab scam.
That was some really lame punishments..
I'm guessing that, this is white matter.
A person of color would have given more time, 4 sure.
They look like Brexit voters to me.
Don't be so ridiculous.
Minimum wage, minimum effort!
But one was a senior nurse. Senior nurses are very well paid.
...to get to the point of abuse, minimum wage or not. They be should as human beings, took a step back and reavauated their situations. I'd rather give up my job rather than get to their stage.
This happens in ALL hospitals! We are calling for an enquiry for the same thing. Nurses are not what we are told. Maybe 3 in a 1000 are there to actually care. Seen it in many hospitals all over England.
Nhs ffs
Most NHS workers are bullies
That’s just not true.Like everyday life there are bad apples.Unfortunately they are allowed to get away with their bad practices,because there is such a shortage of nurses.Agency nurses are without doubt the worse for not knowing what they are doing,and it’s being tolerated,again,because of a shortage of regular ward nurses.
Managers in social care, lawyers and a few bad apples make social services extremely toxic.plus the police don't investigate misconduct in public office, when the misconduct is by said managers, CEOs of private law firms like Kingslie, or when the social work managers move on to work as lecturers !!
Corruption is everywhere.
Believe nothing but nothing
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google common purpose.
Listen up don’t go on the old tippy tappy slagging off all the n h s staff they are amazing caring people. This is just a few disgusting ,disrespectful few who deserve everything they got . Our n h s staff are always there to care for us remember that 🫡🏴 my mother in law is classed as retired she was a nurse all her life and still now cares for people who have not long left she is amazing caring loving to all her patients.
She looks like a proper edl brexiteer but with love for the ol BBC
Grow up