Nurse who helped himself to tranquillisers keeps job

A nurse who stole opiate tranquillisers from work and injected himself is free to continue in the job after he escaped without a ban Ronnie Gutierrez stole £60 worth of Fentanyl and syringes while working at Basildon Hospital in Essex. Gutierrez would enter the controlled drug area and then leave with filled up syringes in his pockets, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. The nurse admitted patients were endangered by his actions and said: ‘I stole medication which should have…