A mental health nurse from Nottinghamshire has been struck off the register after being sentenced in court for dangerous driving and failing to stop for police. Richard Lloyd Stone, who worked as a nurse in the county, committed the offences back in 2017, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC].
Stone was initially suspended but, in a hearing held by the NMC's Fitness to Practice Committee in February last year, the decision was made to impose a striking off order. It comes after Mr Stone was convicted of driving dangerously, without insurance and failing to stop back in December 2017. He was also convicted of failing to surrender to custody at Nottingham Magistrates' Court having previously been released on bail.
The hearing also referenced an email from Stone sent in December 2018, in which he says: "I do not feel there are any as the offence was not related to work at all, and [I]always managed any workload effectively with very infrequent errors over the 10years I have practised [sic] as a qualified nurse".
