Nurse ignored dying patient

A callous nurse who said: ‘Leave him, he’s dead anyway’ as she refused to resuscitate a dying man has been struck off. Former agency nurse Cicilyamma Simon ignored pleas from a colleague and emergency services after she called an ambulance to Westwood Lodge Nursing Home in Wigan, Lancashire. She then lied on the man’s care form, claiming she had tried to revive him on 16 September 2015. Simon told the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) she had performed CPR until…