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Jon Brady

Scots nurse suspended after 'starting relationship' with mental health patient then claiming she was 'blackmailed'

An NHS mental health nurse has been suspended for six months after she admitted socialising with a patient she had met on the ward and hiding it from bosses.

Norah Jane Lily Wilson met the woman while treating her for depression, low mood and suicidal thinking on the Moredun Ward at Perth's Murray Royal psychiatric hospital.

Patient A, as she is named in public documents, was subsequently discharged - and later told community nurses she had begun a "relationship" with Wilson.

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