NHS ward boss is struck off for groping nurses
A LECHEROUS NHS ward manager who repeatedly grabbed nurses and junior staff and simulated sex with them, has been struck off.
Stuart Andrew, 58, a married father of two, grabbed his victims by the hair during an eight-year reign of terror.
One nurse was molested on her first day at work only to be told by a colleague: “You’ll get used to it.”
A second nurse was branded Baldrick – after Blackadder’s dozy sidekick – and told: “You’re so stupid you could not read a bus timetable.”
A misconduct hearing was told how Andrew bombarded female colleagues with lewd comments, including a remark about giving “medicine” to one woman after she complained of a sore throat.
A health care assistant told a misconduct panel how she met Andrew on her first shift on the pain management unit at Mexborough Montagu Hospital, South Yorks, in October 2007.
As she leaned over the nurses’ station to look at something on the desk, Andrew put one hand on the nape of her neck and one arm around her waist and began simulating sex.
The woman described him as having a rotund belly and said she felt him pressing against her backside while he “gyrated behind her”.
She told the Nursing and Midwifery Council Fitness to Practise Committee hearing that she was shocked.
Striking Andrew off the nursing register, panel chairwoman Elizabeth Burnley said: “His conduct was wholly inappropriate and, by its very nature, was clearly bullying.
“Andrew was not only abusive, rude and derogatory in his comments to certain members of staff, he was also physically abusive.”
Andrew, who qualified as a nurse in 1993, began work for Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust in January 2002 as a bank nurse.
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