Junkie nurse tended to elderly

A community nurse who faked prescriptions to feed her heroin habit in five drug-fuelled months of ‘systematic, premeditated and calculated dishonesty’ has been thrown out the profession. Marie Hayes forged doctor’s signatures to satisfy her drug cravings when working with the Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust. Local pharmacists dispensed the diamorphine (heroin) to Hayes as she told them it was for patients she was caring for, some of whom were terminally ill. But Hayes was taking…