Boozy scientist ‘topped up tea cup with vodka’

A chief biomedical scientist who was seen pouring vodka into her tea cup at a teaching hospital has been suspended for 12 months. Yvonne Hall was employed as a quality manager at Arrowpark Hospital in Birkenhead, Wirral, testing blood and samples to diagnose diseases. According to a colleague, Hall appeared ‘flustered and flushed’ as she discreetly topped up her tea cup from a bottle covered in a plastic bag in November 2017. When Hall stepped out of the room and…