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Friday, 20 October, 2000, 22:41 GMT 23:41 UK

Nursing home staff struck off


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A nurse who slept on duty, shaved different patients with the same razor and left them on a commode for 30 minutes has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

Gin Cheng Yew was found guilty of 10 misconduct charges, which also included causing distress to patients by performing "rough manual evacuations of the bowel" and catheterising them without using gloves.

The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) also found her colleagues Gin Kee Slater and Vera Joyce Field guilty of six and five misconduct charges respectively, following an 11-day hearing.

All three were removed from the UK professional register so they can no longer work as registered nurses in this country.



This is a disturbing catalogue of the neglect of vulnerable and trusting patients
UKCC director of professional conduct, Liz McAnulty

The women worked at Lakeside Lodge nursing and residential home in Middleton, Saxmundham, Suffolk, where the offences took place between 1995 and 1997.

Mrs Slater, of Aldeburgh, the joint proprietor of the home, carried out unsafe practices in treating patients' bed sores.

She also failed to ensure enough staff were available to work, allowed them to get patients up at an unreasonably early hour and left the home when she was the only trained member of staff on duty.

'Incompetent'

Mrs Field, of Holton St Peter, Halesworth and Miss Yew, of Debenham near Stowmarket, were employed as registered nurses.

She also slept on duty, allowed staff to get patients out of bed unreasonably early and failed to assist colleagues with the care of patients when she was the only trained member of staff on duty.

UKCC director of professional conduct, Liz McAnulty, said: "This is a disturbing catalogue of the neglect of vulnerable and trusting patients, presided over by Mrs Slater, Mrs Field and Miss Yew.

"Removing them from the register is essential to protect the public from such incompetent and neglectful nurses."


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