A BLUNDERING midwife who altered a patient’s records after failing to carry out vital tests has been found guilty of dishonesty.
Fiona Baillie-Hamilton failed to check the protein in a patient’s urine after she was admitted to the Royal Blackburn Hospital’s delivery suite presenting with symptoms of post-labour complications.
She admitted making inaccurate notes stating she had conducted the test, but was cleared of doing so dishonestly.
She also admitted retrospectively altering that patient's charts after a colleague questioned whether the examination had been carried out.
Baillie-Hamilton denied that her actions in this regard were dishonest, but a panel at the Nursing and Midwifery Council found dishonesty proved.
The panel concluded that the nurse had ‘wilfully misled’ others.
The panel therefore found that her actions in retrospectively altering the medical chart amounted to dishonesty.
It must now decide whether the facts found proved amount to misconduct.
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