In a decision that should have patients and relatives everywhere jumping for joy, and has implications for social workers, whistleblowing nurse Margaret Haywood has been reinstated onto the nursing register.
Margaret Haywood was struck off the register after she assisted a Panorama exposure of shocking conditions at the Royal Sussex Hospital.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council, whose scandalous decision ended Margaret’s career earlier this year, has done a spectacular u-turn. Having vigorously defended their original decision which sent out a message to whistleblowers across the NHS to seal their lips, the regulator has had to execute a humiliating climb down.
Faced with a vigorous campaign and legal action by the Royal College of Nursing, and isolated by public opinion, the Council has agreed at the High Court to replace the career-wrecking removal from the register with a one year caution. Apparently the High Court has powers of persuasion that the original hearing that struck her off the Register failed to understand.
Read the agreed statement at:
http://www.nmc-uk.org/aArticle.aspx?ArticleID=3893
Roger Kline welcomed the decision on behalf of Aspect and said “The original decision was perverse and unjust and sent out competely the wrong signals. This agreement redresses the balance and I hope the NMC have learnt their lesson. Time will tell if they have”.
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