{"id":393410,"date":"2026-01-27T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393410\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:20:07","slug":"bogus-cardiff-healthcare-worker-used-fake-id-to-scam-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393410\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Cardiff healthcare worker used fake ID to scam NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The health board&#8217;s investigation found staff had noticed &#8220;bizarre&#8221; behaviour during her shifts, including locking herself in a room on a ward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also locked doors in corridors that were not allowed to be locked in case of fire or if staff were needed to help deal with violent patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adeleiyi, who had no training in restraint techniques, had access to confidential patient notes and made additions to observation notes herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard health bosses said the potential risks &#8220;could have been catastrophic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adeleiyi used the ID of a registered healthcare support worker who fled from the UK to Nigeria using a false passport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Recorder Mark Powell KC told Adeleiyi: &#8220;You put the patients at risk&#8230; you put staff at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adeleiyi was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The health board&#8217;s investigation found staff had noticed &#8220;bizarre&#8221; behaviour during her shifts, including locking herself in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}