Nurse swapped explicit text with patient’s mum

  A nurse who swapped sexually explicit texts with a young patient’s mother has been suspended for 12 months. Gareth Pritchard asked the woman out to dinner while employed as a community nurse at the Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust. He pursued the young divorcee while helping care for her child, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. The ‘vulnerable’ mother had previously been a victim of physical and emotional abuse, the panel heard. Pritchard sent the woman texts of…