Nurse Struck Off For Withholding Treatment In Nursing Home


A nurse has been struck off the register for deliberately withholding treatment from patients in his care at a Plymouth nursing home. The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) at its hearing in London found Michael Callaghan, 67, guilty of failing to administer laxatives, nebulisers and painkillers to patients in the Drake Nursing Home, Plymouth where he worked night shifts in 2005 and 2006.

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