Ban for overdose nurse

A nurse who overdosed on painkillers while in charge of a care home has been suspended for a year. Scott Allan helped himself to 34 co-codamol tablets at the Cumbernauld Care Home on the outskirts of Glasgow on the night of April 1 last year. Allan was the sole nurse on the dementia unit, meaning residents were left alone while he was taken to hospital. His handover nurse arrived in the morning to find the tablet wrappers stashed in the…