Patricia Dowdy, Stephen Hawking's former nurse, has been struck off the nursing register in the UK after the Nursing and Midwifery Council found that she "failed to provide the standards of good, professional care that we expect and Professor Hawking deserved".
Matthew McClelland, director of Fitness to Practise at the NMC, said: "The panel has found Mrs Dowdy failed to provide the standards of good, professional care that we expect and Professor Hawking deserved."As the public rightly expects, in serious cases such as this - where a nurse has failed in their duty of care and has not been able to evidence to the panel that they have learned from their mistakes and be fit to practise - we will take action.
"We have remained in close contact with the Hawking family throughout this case and I am grateful to them - as they approach the anniversary of Professor Hawking's death - and others for sharing their concerns with us. My thoughts are with the family at this difficult time. "As the regulator, we will always listen when concerns about the fitness of nurses, midwives or nursing associates are raised with us so that we can investigate further for the benefit of everyone involved."
Responding to the decision, a spokesman for the family said: "The Hawking family are relieved this traumatic ordeal has now concluded and that as a result of the verdict, others will not have to go through what they suffered from this individual.The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , a form of motor neurone disease, when he was a 22-year-old student at Cambridge University.
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