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Nurse given supervision order over false prescription allegations
A nurse alleged to have dishonestly written false prescriptions has been banned from issuing medicine and given a list of conditions to keep working.
Mary Lorna Gibson, who worked at Central Surgery, Surbiton, attended a conduct and competence hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which ended on June 21. Mrs Gibson was charged with issuing false prescriptions for the strong pain-relief drug Oxycodone, which is used in cancer care. It is illegal to be in possession of it without a prescription in the UK.
She was also charged with making two fraudulent entries in a patient's records between February 11, 2009 and November 22, 2010. Her legal representative David Bennett, representing the Royal College of Nursing, argued that no order was necessary. But the panel, made up of lay members Timothy Coleman and Alan Harris, and Simon Williams of the NMC, ruled that an interim practice order was necessary. The ruling said Mrs Gibson, must notify the NMC within seven days if she accepted any paid or unpaid nursing or midwifery appointment, or of any criminal or professional investigation against her.
It also said she must remain under the direct supervision of a band 6 or above nurse where she was working as a nurse or midwife. She was told she also had to send a report from her GP about her health, treatment and compliance with the order to the NMC at least 14 days before any further review or hearing.
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