End of career for nurse who called patient a ‘beached whale’

A former care home nurse who swore at dementia sufferers and called an elderly woman a ‘beached whale’ has been struck off. William Coffey, 65, verbally abused 10 residents as old as 99 at The Oaks Care Home in Blythe, Northumberland. When a 73-year-old woman asked she was at the home, Coffey told her: ‘No one else f****** wants you.’ He branded a 91-year-old man, who was complaining about having sore eyes, an ‘****hole’ and told him to ‘stop f******…