Nurse struck off for being too caring!

Who is Linda Read? You may well ask! She is one of the slaves to the cover-up society that we live in today. Along with that she is, or was, the chair of the panel set up by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to see whether Margaret Haywood, a 58-year old nurse, should be struck off for misconduct.

What was her crime? Revealing in a film that elderly patients were being neglected. Apparently nobody would listen (what's new?) to her reporting of the matter so she involved herself in a Panorama film.

This was too much for the midwife high command. Nobody breaks ranks, they cried! So Mrs.Haywood was in for the chop.

I just find it amazing that people like Linda Read can sleep at nights. I do not know the woman, but she represents the growing cancer in our midst. It's called getting away with blue murder! Instead of striking Mrs Haywood off she should have been given a medal. But then I live in a parallel universe from these drones.

Mrs Hayward said, "I was convinced that it was the right thing to do at the time as, in fact, I had reported the issues and nothing had been done. I felt I owed it to the people on the ward." You did, indeed.

Linda Read on the other hand admits, "Although the conditions on the ward were dreadful, it was not necessary to breach confidentiality to seek to improve them by the method chosen." She then concludes that Mrs Hayward never attempted to report the matter through the proper channels. She was guilty and her action was "fundamentally incompatible with being a nurse".

I'd say being in a neglected state in a uncaring hospital was everyone's nightmare for their elderly loved ones. Perhaps Linda Read puts her rules and regulations before that? What a world!