Mental health nurse dies amid sex slur investigation
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by Angela Cole
A mental health nurse is believed
to have killed herself after being investigated for having sex with
a patient.
The alarm was raised at the Trevor
Gibbens Unit, in Hermitage Lane, Maidstone, which treats mentally
ill criminals.
A reliable source said: "We think it
involved more than one patient, but it was all kept very quiet. It
has been hushed up."
A spokesman for the Kent and Medway
NHS Social Care Partnership Trust, which runs the forensic services
unit, confirmed it had been alerted to a "safeguarding
concern".
"We took immediate action to safeguard
patients and to carry out a thorough investigation.
"The member of staff has since sadly
passed away and their death is now in the hands of the coroner. It
would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this
stage."
Nurse Tracey Edwards, 36, died weeks
after the probe was launched in January last year.
She was by then a patient in the
psychiatric wing of the Princess Royal University Hospital in
Orpington.
Her death is being dealt with by the
coroner of the Southern District of Greater London, Dr Roy Palmer,
and an inquest is due to be held.
Trevor Gibbens Unit provides forensic
mental health care for 62 patients over 18 – 47 men and 15 women -
who are detained under the Mental Heath Act.
Thursday, January 26 2012
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