Scandal nurse at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
A nurse accused of fiddling patient waiting times at the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital is now working at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, it emerged today.
Sharon Turner, a former A&E nurse at Stafford, denies altering records to fulfil management's 'draconian' demands to meet targets, accusing managers of falsifying documents.
Turner now works at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals NHS Trust.
She told a tribunal yesterday that management would only alter times by 'a couple of minutes' but that the demands of senior staff to get 98 per cent of patients in and out of A&E in the four-hour Government target were sometimes impossible to achieve as capacity at Stafford General Hospital dwindled.
Earlier, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard that there was a 'culture of bullying' among senior management at Stafford who 'made a spectacle' of nurses for breaching waiting time limits and shouted at them.
The allegations came at a hearing into the standard of care provided by Turner and another nurse at the hospital, which is at the centre of the Francis Report into care at the Mid-Staffordshire Foundation NHS Trust, where hundreds of patients died unnecessarily.
The hearing continues.
