[Cherie]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

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

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

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Cal.

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

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

[Elliot]

Originally Posted by Cal.

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

Yeah I’d rather have a few quid go in the pocket of a healthcare worker than the Tory goverment

[rusticgal]

Well these responses are quite revealing.....how anyone can defend it or make light of it is extremely worrying.

[bots]

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

[Amy Jade]

This is really sad

[Marsh.]

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

[Amy Jade]

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

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Amy Jade

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

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Cherie

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

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....

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Amy Jade

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

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

[Amy Jade]

Originally Posted by parmnion

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

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.

[Amy Jade]

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

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Amy Jade

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

She didnt, the court proved that.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Amy Jade

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

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?

[Swan]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

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?

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

[Oliver_W]

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

[Amy Jade]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

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

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

[Beso]

Ex nurse.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Ex nurse.

She was never a nurse

[Livia]

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.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Livia

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.

I agree with this.

The amount doesn't matter at all.
Furthermore is this the first time too.

[Amy Jade]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I agree with this.

The amount doesn't matter at all.
Furthermore is this the first time too.

I doubt it, probably done it before.

I don't get how you could though.

[user104658]

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.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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.

The Police were interested considering its been through the court:
"She admitted theft and fraud by false representation, and was given two, five-month jail terms to run concurrently, suspended for 18 months."