Nurse called patient with learning difficulties ‘numbnuts’ but explained he’d ‘been in the armed forces’

A nurse called a patient with learning difficulties ‘numbnuts’, then said he would break the legs of anyone who reported him, a hearing was told. Michael Catherall called another resident a ‘pain in the arse’ while working for Leonard Cheshire Disability at their Eithinog & Arfon Care and Nursing Home in Colwyn Bay, Wales. When told another patient was having a medical episode, he said ‘there is no rush, it’ll be over before I get there’, the Nursing and Midwifery…

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