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Nurse suspended after lowering patients’ early warning scores
Nurse Ian O’Connor has been handed a 12-month suspension order by the Nursing and Midwifery Council after a fitness to practise panel hearing found he had lowered the National Early Warning Scores (NEWS) of two patients during a short-staffed night shift in August 2020, but had not noted this alteration. The FtP panel found his actions were ‘unacceptable’ but not dishonest.