A mental health nurse has been struck off after a tribunal found he had "breached sexual and professional boundaries" with two patients, including by carrying on a five-year affair with one patient and encouraging another to use a vibrator to help her sleep.
Henry Munro, sometimes known as Harry, was an NHS specialist community mental health nurse, though he has since retired. The allegations relate to patients he saw in 2016.
Allegations that, at a March 2016 appointment, Mr Munro told the first patient - Patient A - that she was attractive and desirable, cuddled her, stroked the back of her neck and kissed her head were found proven. The Nursing and Midwifery Council tribunal also found it proven that he had advised her to use a vibrator to help her get to sleep at night, while he was a registered at Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Liaison Nurse.
