archive version of Times piece upthread: https://archive.is/lin1a
Clear explanations with useful sequencing of events and dates:
Evidence on Friday was postponed because Peggie’s legal team requested documents relating to what they described as “career-ending allegations” made by Upton about two incidents of failings of patient care. These allegations were “unfounded”, the nurse’s team said.
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She said Peggie’s legal team had been “anxious to see the covering emails for documents entitled Hate Incident and Formal Complaint”.
She said the Hate Incident document related to the changing room “dispute”, while the one titled Formal Complaint included allegations of “the resuscitation unit incident and what we’re going to call the ‘missing patient incident’, the patient who was triaged and left the hospital without being seen”, the tribunal heard.
Cunningham said: “Stakes for both claimant and second respondent [Dr Upton] are extraordinarily high. The second respondent has made potentially career-ending allegations against the claimant, of a nature which would raise, if true, clear fitness to practise questions.
“If those allegations are untrue then obviously the potential consequences for second respondent would be serious. For the sake of all parties, we would say it’s necessary for all parties that this documentation is aired.”
She added: “The respondent knew full well they had started then aborted this investigation. They did their best to conceal that investigation and certainly did not admit to it and produce the documents.”