A nurse who illegally drugged patients on a hospital stroke unit for an “easy life” has been struck off the nursing register.
Catherine Hudson was jailed for seven years and two months in December 2023 for illegally sedating two patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and conspiring with a junior colleague to sedate a third.
Now she has been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) at a hearing held this week.
Police were alerted by hospital chiefs in November 2018 after a student nurse on a work placement said Hudson suggested administering unprescribed zopiclone, a sleeping pill, to an elderly patient, Preston Crown Court heard during her sentencing.
Hudson wrote about one of her victims in a Whatsapp message: “I sedated one of them to within an inch of her life…