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A nurse has been struck off the register for deliberately withholding treatment from patients in his care at a Plymouth nursing home. The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) at its hearing in London found Michael Callaghan, 67, guilty of failing to administer laxatives, nebulisers and painkillers to patients in the Drake Nursing Home, Plymouth where he worked night shifts in 2005 and 2006.

A nurse who failed to accurately complete the section of a job application pertaining to previous convictions has been struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register following a professional hearing held in Belfast on October 17, 2008. Robert Patrick Campbell, a 44 year old Registered mental health nurse from Belfast chose not to be present at the hearing that ended his nursing career.