\n County Durham nurse Belinda Jayne Kay, who was employed by Hallam Medical Recruitment Agency and worked at Jubilee Medical Group – which has surgeries in Newton Aycliffe and Shildon – also falsified medical records.\n<\/p>\n
\n A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel last month concluded Ms Kay\u2019s conduct put patients at \u201cserious risk of harm\u201d and also caused \u201cemotional harm\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n The misconduct panel heard how on December 19, 2021, during a consultation with a patient, the nurse said \u201cthere\u2019s nothing wrong with it, stop being a f***y\u201d, or words to that effect.\n<\/p>\n
\n The patient gave evidence at the hearing, with the panel finding her \u201cclear, consistent and compelling\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n During her evidence, the patient reiterated on multiple occasions the nurse used those words, saying it was memorable as \u201cit\u2019s not every day someone calls you a f***y\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Kay denied using the phrase, but admitted using inappropriate language on another occasion.\n<\/p>\n
\n The panel also heard how in August 2022, the nurse said: \u201cI am sick of the backstabbing b******s in this place\u201d, or words to that effect.\n<\/p>\n
\n Libby Anderson, representing Ms Kay, said that while the language was unprofessional, it was \u201cdirected at nobody in the workplace and had nothing to do with colleagues\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n She added: \u201cIt was an expression of frustration about your private life, uttered only after colleagues asked what was wrong when they noticed you were upset.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Kay admitted the allegation.\n<\/p>\n
\n The NMC panel also heard that on or around September 2022, the nurse recorded in a child\u2019s consultation information sheet she had conducted the following observations: temperature check, respiratory rate, oxygen levels and heart rate.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her actions were proved to be \u201cdishonest\u201d as the nurse knew she had not conducted the observations.\n<\/p>\n
\n The panel heard evidence from a child\u2019s mother, which was relayed by Lorraine Stainsby, an advanced nurse practitioner and clinical lead at the group.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Stainsby stated: \u201cI spoke to the child\u2019s mother who informed me that when they came in for an assessment, Belinda did not conduct any observations on the child.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe mother reported that the child still had a cough and now has an inhaler.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cObservations were recorded in the consultation notes for the child, but the mother told me that Belinda had not done any observations.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Kay claimed the mother \u201cmay have been distracted on her phone during the assessment and therefore might not have noticed the observations being carried out\u201d, but the panel rejected the explanation entirely.\n<\/p>\n
\n The panel added: \u201cObservations such as temperature checks, oxygen saturation, and pulse measurement require visible, hands\u2011on interaction, ear thermometers, finger or toe pulse oximetry clips, and timing respiratory rate while observing the child. Such actions cannot plausibly occur unnoticed.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Having found the observations had not been performed, the panel concluded people would regard falsifying documents as dishonest.\n<\/p>\n
\n They said: \u201cFalsifying observations in a paediatric consultation misleads future clinicians, creates a falsely reassuring clinical picture, undermines safeguarding and presents a direct risk to patient safety.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis was not a case of poor documentation, error, or misunderstanding. It was the deliberate recording of clinical findings that you knew to be untrue.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The nurse was struck off from the medical register and no longer works at Jubilee Medical Group.\n<\/p>\n
\n A Jubilee Medical Group spokesperson said: \u201cWe expect the highest standards from our staff and took immediate action when these concerns came to light more than four years ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe nurse involved was not a Jubilee Medical Group employee and has not worked for the practice since the issues were raised.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOur team is focused on providing high quality care for our patients and community.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Hallam Medical Recruitment Agency has been contacted but did not respond in time for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County Durham nurse Belinda Jayne Kay, who was employed by Hallam Medical Recruitment Agency and worked at Jubilee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591964","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\/591964","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=591964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}