Wrexham nurse sacked after death of secret lover patient in car park

A caregiver has been sacked aft a diligent she has a concealed narration with died pursuing a precocious nighttime infirmary car parkland meeting.

Penelope Williams didn't telephone an ambulance aft the man, known arsenic Patient A, collapsed successful January 2022.

He was recovered unresponsive with his trousers down and died of bosom nonaccomplishment and chronic kidney disease.

Mrs Williams has been struck disconnected by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for bringing the assemblage into disrepute.

The proceeding was told the diligent was recovered successful the backmost of his ain car astatine Wrexham's Spire Hospital aft the brace had met successful the hospital's car park.

The sheet heard Mrs Williams, who worked arsenic a wide caregiver connected a renal unit, had met Patient A astir a twelvemonth before.

He had aggregate wellness conditions, the proceeding was told, and received attraction successful the portion wherever Mrs Williams worked.

On the night, Mrs Williams had gone to the location of a colleague, earlier gathering with Patient A.

Just earlier midnight, her co-worker took a telephone from her.

She was "crying and distressed and asking for help", the sheet heard.

After telling them idiosyncratic had died, Mrs Williams was advised to telephone an ambulance, but did not.

When the workfellow arrived astatine the car park, they called 999 connected uncovering Patient A partially clothed and unresponsive.

He was pronounced dormant soon after.

Mrs Williams initially told constabulary and a paramedic she had gone to the car parkland aft Patient A messaged her saying helium was unwell.

The adjacent day, she admitted to constabulary they had been successful a intersexual relationship.

But successful February, she denied this to wellness committee officials.

She said they had sat successful the backmost of his car for 30-45 minutes "just talking" earlier Patient A "started groaning and abruptly died".

At a May disciplinary hearing, Mrs Williams admitted some the narration and not calling an ambulance and was sacked.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council sheet recovered failing to notation the narration "put her ain interests up of the wellbeing of Patient A".

It said portion Mrs Williams was remorseful, she had constricted penetration astir the harm her narration could origin to nursing's estimation oregon its effect connected nationalist safety.

They recovered this amounted to superior misconduct and her fittingness to practise was impaired.

Striking her from the nursing register, the sheet concluded determination were nary mitigating features.

"Mrs Williams' actions were important departures from the standards expected of a registered nurse, and are fundamentally incompatible with her remaining connected the register," it said.

"The sheet was of the presumption that the findings successful this peculiar lawsuit show that Mrs Williams' actions were truthful superior that to let her to proceed practising would undermine nationalist assurance successful the assemblage and successful the NMC arsenic a regulatory body."