Nurse wrongly blamed for patient death traumatised.
A nurse has accused a troubled health board of making her a scapegoat after a locum failed to send a psychiatric patient to A&E following a morphine overdose.
A catalogue of failures, including allowing the patient to go home and failing to search her for drugs when she returned to hospital despite a 20-year history of overdoses, led to the 50-year-old patient’s death at Dundee’s Carseview psychiatric unit in 2019. But staff nurse Gail Taylor, who did not even come on duty until hours after the patient admitted to medical teams that she had taken 30 slow-release morphine tablets, was suspended for years by NHS Tayside before finally being cleared and offered her job back.
The Sunday Post (Dundee), 20th October 2024 – archived below for public information.
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