Nurse struck off – for flashing her knickers at club

A nurse has been thrown out of the profession for calling a vulnerable patient ‘a big bloody queer,’ and flashing her knickers on a night out. Katy Bedford was employed at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust when she bumped into two patients out clubbing in June 2015, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. Bedford called one a ‘queer bastard’ and a ‘big bloody queer’, said NMC panel chair Clive Chalk. ‘The patient was finding it difficult to come…