Top nurse set to face misconduct hearing

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The head of surgical nursing at Preston and Chorley hospitals is to go before a misconduct hearing, accused of attempting to gag whistleblowers.

Rachel Angela Sansbury has been asked to face a panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council starting on July 25, where she will face claims relating to dishonestly asking three colleagues to conceal or misrepresent the performance of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The allegations are that:

1. Around October 2012 she told Colleague A not to raise any clinical concerns outside the clinical Governance team.

2. Around October 2012 she told two colleagues to “keep their mouths shut” about the concerns and issues they were experiencing in Governance, or words to that effect;