Nurse tried to stop family calling ambulance

A nurse has been struck off for refusing to call an ambulance for an 88-year-old dementia sufferer with a broken neck. Faustina Osei Abisey refused to call an ambulance for the elderly woman while a nurse at Queens Court Nursing Home in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, on 16 September 2011. Abisey told a relative of the octogenarian that an ambulance would cost £1,000 and said to them: ‘Don’t you dare call an ambulance.’ When the relative began calling an ambulance anyway…