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.