Blackpool nurse found guilty of sedating patients to ‘keep them quiet’
by Andrew Gregory Health editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6FB36)
Catherine Hudson, 54, faces jail after drugging patients in 2017 and 2018 amid culture of abuse' on unit
A nurse is facing jail after being found guilty of mistreating patients on a hospital stroke unit by giving them sedatives to keep them quiet and compliant" for an easy life".
Catherine Hudson, 54, drugged two patients during shifts at Blackpool Victoria hospital in April 2017 and November 2018. Jurors at Preston crown court also convicted her of conspiring with a junior colleague, Charlotte Wilmot, 48, to administer a sedative to a third patient.
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