Nurse who tried to kiss a patient in hospital is struck off

A nurse has been thrown out of the profession after he tried to kiss a patient telling her: ‘It’s not my fault you’re pretty.’ Rufus Akintimenhin was working at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London when he told the woman she was breaking his heart and he loved her. He later massaged soothing balm onto her legs, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. When the patient complained of chest pain, on 14 July 2021, Akintiehin asked her: ‘Baby,…