@nauticant thanks for the thread and not sticking to the 30 minutes - been out all day and having to skim read.
I'd hope the NMC would go on actions not words. The NHS can ill afford to lose a nurse who in 30 years of service had one complaint, about being too strict with a (possibly inadequate) trainee. Her willingness to work weekend nights mean they really cant afford to lose her. If I lived in Fife I'd want an efficient nurse running the a&e on weekend nights and wouldnt give a fuck about her private opinions as long as it didnt affect my treatment. No evidence her opinions have affected the treatment of patients or of Upton. She tried to avoid the changing room when he was there, called him Beth and tried to say her. The idea that she was lying in wait for him Christmas Eve when she was mid shift is laughable. She didnt object to anyone else using the changing room so the bigot argument shouldnt run.
NHS Fife should be in special measures. They have no idea of proper process or the law and are all about the trans rather than patient safety or racist attitudes among staff. The decision to defend this tribunal was a serious waste of public money.
Upton amended his "contemporaneous" notes. He was encouraged to sex up a few hurty words into something far more serious that he could not substantiate. He was badly failed and should have been told to find a spine or another specialty. But he didnt have to go along with this and backtrack/ lie under oath. He's an untrustworthy witness and there are serious concerns about patient consent and potential assault. He should find it difficult to get another post.
Dr Searle failed miserably as a supervisor. She and Jamie Doyle encouraged a shit show, I hope they pay a penalty but really doubt it.
JR has been throwing Fife under a stream of buses to save the career of one deluded man. JR may also be guilty of not being clear about the reputational damage to Fife from the start. Regardless of how many glowing things she has on her cv if I was an employer I would not want her representing me in this sort of case. Her time wasting, insults to Naomi and childish behaviour over names in this case should be reported to the Bar Standards Board. Maybe she was not entirely responsible for Fife's failure to disclose but disclosures conveniently turned up rather late when they were produced. I noted the attempts to see this was because the claimants specified not admin stuff, clearly a lot of important disclosures came late.
Naomi doesnt labour points the Tribunal can see clearly themselves. The submissions will be interesting.