Nurse struck off

Thieving nurse struck off

Jun 24 2003

South London Press

A NURSE hooked on painkillers has been struck off after she was jailed for pinching medicine from a hospital drugs cabinet. Praveena Naidoo, 69, stole a total of 62 pethidine doses from St Thomas' Hospital on 15 occasions in October and November 2001.

She was jailed for three months at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on February 1 last year after admitting theft and false accounting.

She was struck off on Thursday. DC Paul Beesley told the Nurse and Midwifery Council he was called in to investigate when bosses became suspicious that hospital records had been forged.

Items were found at Naidoo's Kennington home at Stables Way. The hearing was told she immediately confessed, telling detectives: "I took pethidine for myself to help me sleep and relax. I know it was wrong. It will never happen again."

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