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Nurse struck off for secret filming

Apr 16 2009

Nurse Margaret Haywood has been struck off the register with immediate effect after secretly filming for a BBC Panorama programme exposing neglect of elderly patients in a hospital.

Ms Haywood, 58, of Liverpool, recorded appalling conditions at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton for a BBC documentary screened in July 2005.

She said: "I was convinced that it was the right thing to do at the time as, in fact, I had reported the issues and nothing had been done. I felt I owed it to the people on the ward."

Ms Haywood was found guilty of misconduct at a hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in central London.

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