Bungling nurse gave wrong vaccine to child

A nurse who gave a child the wrong vaccine and almost repeated the mistake with a second youngster has been suspended for three months. Claire Clarke made the blunder while working at the Cross Keys GP practice in Princes Risborough, Bucks, in April 2019. She was supposed to administer the Repevax vaccine – which protects against diseases such as polio – but mistakenly injected the three-year-old with Infranic Hexa, for infections including Hepatitis B. Clarke then filled in records stating…

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