Nurse suspended over holiday affair with patient

A married nurse who met up with a patient on the beach while on holiday with his wife nearly 25 years ago has been suspended for six months. Laurence Housden struck up a relationship with the woman in 1993 while working on the psychiatric ward at Macclesfield District General Hospital in Cheshire. Housden and his wife even socialised with the patient and her friends, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. The pair kissed on the beach at Seahouses, Northumumberland, while…