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03.08.2023 - 10:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A nurse failed to call an ambulance for a seriously ill care home resident - and then lied about it when they died in an attempt to cover his tracks.
Agency nurse Joseph Adekunle Bankole, who was working at Lynmere Nursing Home in Stockport, had tried to 'cover up' for his failings after the incident in 2019, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) found.
Mr Bankole had been looking after the resident, who was feeling unwell and whose health deteriorated over the course of the day on August 7, 2019. An ambulance was eventually called by the cook at the home but the resident later died.
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Mr Bankole was referred to the NMC on August 22 by the former home manager. During a recent four-day fitness to practise committee hearing, several misconduct charges against him were found proved by the NMC panel, CheshireLive reports.
The hearing, which proceeded in Mr Bankole's absence after legal advice was taken, heard he had lied when giving evidence at coroner's court, where he claimed that had been 'instructed not to call' the resident's 'GP and/or ambulance' and tried to shift the blame onto the manager.
Among the charges proven included his failure to 'inform the resident’s GP that an urgent visit was required and/or call an ambulance when it would have been clinically appropriate to do so in light of the resident’s condition'.
The panel's report states: "The panel considered the contemporaneous written statements from Witness C (receptionist at the GP Surgery) and evidence presented in the coroner’s court, which showed that Mr Bankole had made a phone call to the GP.
"The record of the phone call states that Mr Bankole said the
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