Nurse suspended over heart attack blunder

A nurse who delayed help being given to a patient suffering from a heart attack on New Years Day has been suspended for 12 months. Fareed Saumtally performed an ECG test on the man after he complained of chest pains at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington, Kent. But he failed to show the results to a doctor and the patient was only visited by a registrar after he suffered a violent spasm. The Nursing and Midwifery Council decided…