Hawking nurse is struck off

Professor Stephen Hawking’s former nurse has been struck off the register for failing to provide him with ‘good, professional care’. Patricia Dowdy, 61, cared for the professor for 15 years before he died and was photographed with him at prestigious events. Dowdy, from Ipswich, Suffolk, had faced charges of financial misconduct, dishonesty, not providing appropriate care for the professor at his Cambridge home and not having correct qualifications. After a secret hearing at the Nursing and Midwifery Council in Stratford,…