Case of TV nurse is settled.A NURSE who was struck off after raising concerns about poor standards of care has had her case settled, unions said. Margaret Haywood secretly filmed the neglect of elderly patients for a television documentary and was struck off the nursing register for misconduct in April. She admitted breaching patient confidentiality but said she had agreed to film at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton to highlight terrible conditions there. Her film was used in a BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Panorama programme. The Nursing and Midwifery Council The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) is the UK regulator for two professions, Nursing and Midwifery. It does this through maintaining a register of all nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses eligible to practise within the UK and by setting (NMC) and the Royal College of Nursing The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is a membership organisation with over 395,000 members in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1916, receiving its Royal Charter in 1928, Queen Elizabeth II is the patron. (RCN) said the High Court has replaced the striking off order with a one-year caution. Kathy George, chief executive and registrar at the NMC, said: "Raising concerns about poor standards of care is a difficult and brave step for any nurse or midwife to take and is vitally important." |
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