Nurse had vast pill collection

A senior nurse who hoarded 9,000 pills been struck off. Emma Deverson began prescribing drugs for patients she had never met and collecting them for herself when working with Bristol Community Health. Deverson took the tablets out of their cardboard packages and hid them around her home in cupboards, drawers and under the stairs. She wrote false prescriptions in different patients’ names for co-codamol, codeine, diazepam, dihydrocodeine, oramorph, tramadol and zopiclone. Deverson was caught out when a review of prescribing…