taking the jelly desserts from the geriatric ward :worry:

I'm glad you feel that way Nicky.

The woman who died will not feel aggrieved but her family will. They may not even have been informed before this woman stole from her. Its a massive abuse of trust

If a NHS worker wants to treat herself to dinner on my card after I’ve died I’m fine with that tbf

of course i know this, it also happens in my nation yes, i see on our crimewatch over here way too many times, also to still living elderly, whom get robbed by young girls usually, whom seem harmless at first but distract the older lady/man long enough to go through his/her wallet, also sometimes before this following their intended victim in the supermarket to look at pin number first


i am most definitely not ageist, and i myself would never ever do something like this

You might be,but you think your family would be happy that someone who was meant to be looking after you had stolen from you before you were cold?

I would have been livid if an NHS worker had stolen from my mum....she wouldn't have cared but its just the abuse of trust, not the money that would have pissed me off. I would have let her use my mums card had she asked but to gave taken it without asking is grim.

If it was me lying there dead I'd feel like you, but that's not the point....people are bound to be pissed off. If a nurse nicked your wallet while you were visiting someone would you just let that go? This is no different:shrug:

everyone has their own views about this i think

but i now get it myself why some think of this as a crime

why not treat them why you are alive, why wait until you are dead, hand over your card details, I am sure TS's wife would love a treat

whose to say they werent doing exactly the same with all the patients in critical care. If someone is caught having done this, its very unlikely it was the first time

for all anyone knows it could have been a joint account with her husband/partner, its no better than grave robbing

Exactly your own scenario that you’ve created :flower:

nah some views are manufactured bait lbr

This is really sad

The fact she bought such childish/trivial things with it is :umm2:

I'd like to know more before wading in. I wouldn't do what the worker did, especially after the lady had passed.

However, the lady could have given permission and the worker made an error or even done it not knowing she had passed.

I've been in situations where patients have tried to give me things and even money that I've had to refuse and I know one lady who works with me occasionally in duo calls and she takes patients cards to tap pay for food for them, I don't do it because I know we aren't meant to but the woman has been with the company for about 20 years so she can't be stealing or it'd been noticed imo

If you read the report she said she found it on the floor and confused it with her own card...she never mentioned consent by the patient

then maybe she did find it and mistake it for hers?

Ironically, if she'd have been 'clever' she could have used that as an excuse - "oh the patient said i could use it". No real way of disproving that. Some criminals are pretty smart, this one on the other hand....

Your first paragraph....why on earth you feel the need to justify that you wouldnt do what she did is beyond me:shrug:

She didnt, the court proved that.

It's grim and audacious but if it was me, I wouldn't particularly care for such a small amount. If the nurse had made off with the person's life savings, that would be different, but £6? I can forgive that if it was me or a relative. I'd say it speaks to the state of the NHS if a nurse has to steal to pay £6 worth of food.

Why are you more bothered about £6 than the tories siphoning millions of taxpayer pounds to their backers and friends? You should ask yourself why you think theft on a grand scale is okay, but you're up in arms about £6. In fact, I ask that of all tory supporters, sort out your priorities.

Nurses get on average 34K a year to pretend she was poor and had to steal a dead persons money to buy crisps, sweets and fizzy pop (because when you are starving that is what you deffo would buy) is frankly ridiculous

Food...:facepalm:

Because our jobs are similar, as we are both caring for others.

I even went more indepth and explained. Patients try and give me items often and I've been asked several times to go to the shop and had to refuse as we aren't to touch their cards.

They only have pop, crisps and sweets in vending machines don't they?

So even if she was starving she wasn't going to get a Sunday roast out of them is she.

Hospital restaurant....coffee shop in the lobby....if she needed food she could have gone to one of those

to suggest a nurse is starving and has to steal dead peoples bank cards to eat jink food is just preposterous

I highly doubt any of those were open in January, lockdown and all.

That's why you shouldn't have contactless - if you die, who knows what lunch someone might buy...

The cards were different colours....she made 6 transactions, one later that night and then tried to use it again 4 days later......she surely would have realised days later that she had picked the wrong card up by mistake?

She was a HCA, not a nurse and so probably on minimum wage of just over, not £34k

Yes they were for takeaway...the staff have to eat

I mean really you should be able to trust those who's job it is to care for you but I get your point

If it was you, you would have bought shoes as well.

Can always rely on you pulling that 34k figure out where it doesn't apply.

Yep. There are no excuses. The callousness of the nurse is easily apparent here.

Ex nurse.

She was never a nurse

Just a reminder that you're more angry about £6 then millions of taxpayers' money being given away to Tory donors.

Ah, I forgot, crisps and sweets aren't food... Thank you, for reminding us of that.

I'm surprised some people are dismissing this so lightly. I think it'd be different if it was a relative of theirs that had just died and then been robbed by someone who was trusted to care for them. The amount doesn't matter.

To be honest I don't really buy the excuse that she thought it was hers... I think she just thought no one would ever notice. However it is feasible that she found the card and didn't know who it belonged to (let alone that they had just died). Still not OK obviously... there's a reputational issue here. It would actually be more clear cut if she WAS a nurse as it would be an NMC/Registration issue and there would definitely be an investigation at that level... with her being staff without a formal registration it's more just down to the employer, and I guess the police, although I doubt the police are massively interested over £6.