{"id":815713,"date":"2026-10-27T18:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815713\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:32:15","slug":"cornwall-nurse-struck-off-for-using-patient-records-for-ozempic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815713\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall nurse struck off for using patient records for Ozempic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) described the actions of Sarah Jayne Didymus \u2013 which happened in Cornwall<\/a> over a period of 16 months \u2013 as \u201cdevious, sustained, calculated and planned\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Its panel found she had \u201cobtained weight-loss drugs at NHS subsidised prices\u201d and printed prescriptions rather than sending them electronically in a bid to conceal her actions.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mrs Didymus worked as an advanced nurse practitioner at Port View Surgery in Saltash from 2021 until her resignation in 2023.\n<\/p>\n

\n Her responsibilities included running clinics, triaging patients, seeing patients face-to-face, reviewing minor illnesses, and completing home visits.\n<\/p>\n

\n She was a nurse prescriber, meaning she could prescribe necessary medication for her patients.\n<\/p>\n

\n The NMC panel was told the practice manager became suspicious of Mrs Didymus in April 2023 following a phone call from Boots pharmacy querying a large amount of Ozempic which had been prescribed to a patient.\n<\/p>\n

\n It was also noted that Mrs Didymus had \u201clost a lot of weight\u201d in the previous months.\n<\/p>\n

\n It emerged the nurse had been prescribing patients courses of Ozempic and Trulicity, printing them off on paper, and then ending the course on the patients\u2019 records to ensure they would show.\n<\/p>\n

\n The NMC panel described her actions, which involved five patients, as \u201ccalculated and sophisticated\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n It found that, in January 2022, Mrs Didymus restarted a course of Trulicity for one patient with \u201cno clinical basis\u201d before ending the entry on their medical record.\n<\/p>\n

\n The drug had previously been prescribed to this patient in 2018, but was not continued as they had an adverse reaction.\n<\/p>\n

\n A nurse in Cornwall has been struck off after she was found to be falsifying the records of a number of patients to obtain weight-loss drugs to use herself. (Image: Getty Images)\n<\/p>\n

\n The following month, Mrs Didymus prescribed a 12-month course of Ozempic for the same patient following a telephone consultation.\n<\/p>\n

\n The NMC said Ozempic was not discussed and there was \u201cno clinical indication for that prescription\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mrs Didymus printed the prescription, and around 20 minutes later ended it on the record using the reason \u201cerror\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n In June of that year she issued another 12-month course of Ozempic for the same patient despite not having a consultation with them.\n<\/p>\n

\n She printed a paper prescription, ended the course with the reason \u201cdidn\u2019t use\u201d, then collected the medication herself at a pharmacy.\n<\/p>\n

\n According to an email between Mrs Didymus and the lead pharmacist, the cost of the items dispensed was \u00a3822.\n<\/p>\n

\n In January 2023, she accessed another patient\u2019s records with no consultation, issued a four-week course of semaglutide and collected the prescription herself.\n<\/p>\n

\n Later the same month, and for the same patient, she printed another prescription for the weight-loss drug before ending the record by recording \u201cwrong PT\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mrs Didymus repeated this with a third patient the following month, and in March 2023 added a 28-day course of Ozempic to a fourth patient\u2019s records with no clinical justification.\n<\/p>\n

\n In April 2023, the nurse issued a four-month prescription for Ozempic to a fifth patient, printed it off and cancelled it on their record.\n<\/p>\n

\n The NMC found Mrs Didymus \u201cobtained weight-loss drugs at NHS subsidised prices\u201d and the \u201crepeated features\u201d of her conduct were \u201csignificant\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Prescriptions were printed rather than sent electronically and were prepared to \u201cconceal what had been done\u201d, with the same methods used a number of times.\n<\/p>\n

\n The panel highlighted \u201cthis was not consistent with isolated error or poor record-keeping, but demonstrated a deliberate course of conduct\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Its report said Mrs Didymus \u201cmisused her prescribing authority in a manner wholly inconsistent with the standards expected of a registered nurse\u201d, and concluded her actions \u201cfell seriously below the conduct and professional standards expected\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n It added: \u201cMrs Didymus was a senior nurse with an additional registered prescribing qualification, including controlled drugs, and therefore occupied a position of enhanced trust.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cShe abused that position by deliberately selecting individual patients, creating and printing prescriptions for medication she wanted, cancelling those prescriptions and concealing them within the patients\u2019 medication histories.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe panel was satisfied that public confidence in the nursing profession would be undermined if conduct involving dishonesty of this seriousness did not result in a finding of impairment.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe calculated and sophisticated nature of this conduct made a finding of impairment on public interest grounds necessary.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n A spokesperson for Port View Surgery said: \u201cAs soon as this matter came to light, we launched a full investigation and notified and assisted all relevant authorities, including regulatory ones.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe employee was suspended and then resigned under suspension. She has subsequently been struck off.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis issue occurred some time ago and no patients came to harm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) described the actions of Sarah Jayne Didymus \u2013 which happened in Cornwall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815713","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=815713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}