Care failings nurse struck off register

A nurse has been kicked out of the profession for a series of failures in the care of terminally-ill patients.

Jayne Love failed to give a patient a vital dose of painkillers and did not properly look after the body of a potential organ donor.

In a further incident, she wrongly allowed the teenage daughter of a paraplegic patient to stay overnight at St Giles Hospice in Lichfield, where she worked, after the girl was said to have been suspended from school.

Love, aged 51, who now works as a barmaid, was employed by the hospice at the time of the incidents between April 2009 and April 2010.

Love, who was already on a final written warning at the time of the transplant episode, quit her job before a disciplinary hearing could be held.

But her case was brought before a hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Love did not formally admit any of the charges against her and was not represented during the proceedings, which were held in central London.

But she did inform the council by letter that she had no intention of returning to the nursing profession. All of the allegations against her were found proved and a panel decided to strike her name from the nursing register.

Delivering the decision, chairman Judith Worthington said: "In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, she may be a continuing risk to the public."

Having been struck off, Love cannot apply to be reinstated for a period of five years.

The panel also imposed an 18-month temporary suspension order to cover any appeal period should Love choose to challenge the finding.