August 13th 2024.
Kathryn Hill was a nurse who made the shocking decision to deceive two of her close friends for over two years. She created a grandiose plan to trick them into moving to Southampton by offering them fake job positions. In a calculated manner, she forged employment offer letters and even went as far as pretending to be her bosses, including the CEO of the Trust she worked for.
One of her friends, referred to as Person A, eventually caught onto her deceitful actions and reported her to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). After being thoroughly investigated, Kathryn's elaborate scheme of dishonesty was exposed. As a result, she has been struck off at a tribunal held by the NMC. They concluded that she had deep-seated attitudinal problems.
Kathryn had been working as a band six Neuro Nurse Practitioner at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust in Hampshire. Person A had raised concerns to the NMC about Kathryn's behavior between 2020 and 2022. The tribunal also heard that she had used her position and Trust email account to offer her friends fake job positions within the Trust.
She had claimed to have been promoted to a Care Group Manager and even told her friends that she had hiring and firing responsibilities in her department. She went to great lengths to deceive them, even forging documents from the Trust and sending them to Person A and Person B. This led to both of them quitting their jobs and moving to Southampton, all because of Kathryn's false promise of employment.
Kathryn also went as far as telling her friends that she had been involved in a court case with the Trust and that the court was holding her money. In an attempt to recover the money, she created a fake letter from Macmillan Cancer Support, stating that she would receive a large sum of cash. Person A even lent her a significant amount of money, which she never intended to pay back.
On top of all this, Kathryn also told her friends that she had been offered a job at the University of Chicago and invited them to travel with her on a private plane. The investigation found that there was evidence of serious dishonesty throughout her employment at the Trust. As a result, she was dismissed from her post after a disciplinary hearing in March of last year.
The professional tribunal ultimately decided to strike Kathryn off the register. She admitted to all the charges against her but failed to provide any insight into why she chose to deceive her friends. She did state that her nursing career had been a significant part of her life for 12 years and that she was held in high regard within her role. She expressed her disappointment in her actions and vowed to continue her career with honesty and integrity.
The NMC stated that Kathryn had engaged in a calculated and complex set of actions over a two-year period. This included forging multiple documents, impersonating professionals, and abusing her position of trust within the Trust. They also noted that the public would be appalled to learn of her behavior, and the committee found her fitness to practice as a nurse to be impaired.
The panel also pointed out that her charges demonstrated a pattern of dishonest behavior that occurred over a significant amount of time. They also noted that her lack of insight and her references to being skilled in IT showed the level of deceit she was capable of. They believed that there was a high risk of her repeating her actions and therefore decided that a finding of impairment was necessary for the protection of the public.
They also highlighted the repeated and calculated level of dishonesty that Kathryn had displayed and believed that the public would be horrified to learn of her level of deception.
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