Telling tales to the HPC - another failure to take responsibility locally.

And, here's another.
Points of note: a senior position, not simply that of practitioner - suggests that an appointments panel thought she was competent for the job.
Would seem to be a matter better dealt with by someone with a bit of life in them at a local level, rather than reported to an anonymous committee in some central office elsewhere.
The phone calls and internet seem very petty misdemeanours, and not obviously harmful to patients. Again, something that should be dealt with at a local level. Yet she was struck off! I'm not condoning slovenly work in the NHS, but trying to keep a perpsective, and to remember that once in many lifetimes, love can make a fool of even the best of us.
What about this woman's actual work - the thing that she does with a patient, there is absolutely no mention of this whatsoever. Odd.


quoted from HPC web:
Occupational therapist, Ms X has been struck off from the HPC Register for personal misconduct and failing to carry out adequate clinical occupational therapy input to patient care whilst working at the Y Primary Care Trust.

A panel of the HPC Conduct and Competence Committee heard how Ms X had failed to provide regular supervision and appraisals to the members of staff for whom she was responsible, failed to correctly assess patients and failed to organise cover for holiday and sickness leave.

The Panel also heard that Ms X had made personal calls to the value of £32 on her work telephone, used the Trust’s internet resources during working hours to contact dating agencies, took colleagues shopping during work hours and made excessive reference to personal issues in discussions with colleagues.“Ms X must have known that her failings were likely to place patients’ welfare at risk and that these were not proper uses of the Trust’s resources.”

The panel decided the most appropriate action was to strike Ms X from the Register with immediate effect.Ms X was neither present nor represented at the hearing.