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Two Stafford Hospital nurses who falsified A&E discharge times have been struck off the nursing register. | Two Stafford Hospital nurses who falsified A&E discharge times have been struck off the nursing register. |
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel found that Tracey-Ann White and Sharon Turner had brought their profession into serious disrepute. | |
The false recording took place between 2000 and 2010 and was done to avoid breaches of four-hour waiting targets. | |
Ms White is still employed by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. Ms Turner left in September 2009. | |
The trust chief executive Maggie Oldham, said: "[Tracey-Ann White] has been working as a clinical site manager. | |
"We will now take time to give careful consideration to the Nursing and Midwifery Council panel's decision." | |
'Suicide bombers' | |
Both nurses denied all allegations. | |
They faced a series of charges of misconduct for actions between December 2003 and October 2009 in Ms Turner's case and between July 2000 and July 2010 in Ms White's case. | |
The NMC panel found the fitness to practise of Mr Turner was "impaired" after she used abusive language about patients. | |
She also racially abused some junior doctors, referring to them as "the suicide bombers", the panel heard. | |
It ruled that Ms White refused to help a senior nurse undress an elderly patient. | |
Mid Staffordshire NHS trust was the subject of a public inquiry after it was found poor care could have led to the deaths of hundreds of patients as a result of maltreatment and neglect. |