A WEST Somerset nurse has been struck off after she stole medication from Williton Community Hospital to treat her anxiety and depression.
Alison Brigitte Randall was caught stealing zopliclone – a type of sleeping pill – while working at the hospital last year.
She admitted the theft to the police, received a conditional discharge from the courts, and has now been struck off by a panel from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
The Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the county’s community hospitals, said that it had put new procedures in place to prevent this from happening again.
Randall’s fate was decided in her absence by an NMC panel, which convened at the council’s London headquarters on September 19 and 20.
The panel heard how the pharmacy department at Williton Hospital recorded “over-prescribing” of zopliclone, which is used to treat insomnia.
The hospital alerted Avon and Somerset Constabulary, who installed a covert camera in the utility store where the medicine was kept.
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