NHS heroes betrayed

ON a storm-battered night in a speeding ambulance, Leona Harris saved a motherof-three’s life.

As the woman haemorrhaged while losing her unborn baby, the experienced nurse gave an urgent blood transfusion. Without such quick thinking, the patient might have died.

But instead of being rewarded, Mrs Harris was plunged into a four-year nightmare, her treasured career and even her home jeopardised. For in a scandalous injustice, bosses at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust fought to get her struck off – even falsifying statements to frame her.

Why? Because during the emergency, she didn’t follow precise paperwork protocol.

Now an official inquiry has cleared her, concluding she ‘undoubtedly acted in the patient’s best interests’.

No one bows more than the Mail to the thousands of NHS staff who protect us. Yet these heroes are let down by pen-pushers on six-figure salaries whose response to any hint of trouble is to blame, bully, conceal and cover their own backs.

The NHS must pursue the witch-hunters with the same ferocity they unleashed on a nurse who gave a patient the gift of life.