Cancer nurse had relationships with former patients

By Andy Bloxham 730AM GMT eleven March 2010

Nurse Sara Dale was sacked after a whistleblower reported her relations Photo ALBAN PIX

Sara Dale, 39, a Macmillan cancer nurse, was sacked by the sanatorium after a whistleblower reported the relations and an exploration found opposite her.

Miss Dale certified to dual relations with the partners of former patients but she denied allegations that there was a third and it was not proven by investigators.

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The helper is divorced and has dual young kids with her ex-husband.

The initial attribute was when she began saying the former partner of one studious after she died and the attribute lasted for 9 years.

Then, early last year, the partner of scaffolder Stephen Ellis, 50, died from cancer and, by the summer, Miss Dale and Mr Ellis were a couple.

By Christmas, neighbours pronounced she had changed in to Mr Ellis large isolated home on a still estate on the hinterland of King"s Lynn, in Norfolk.

Miss Dale worked as a Macmillan village helper for roughly thirteen years and treated with colour the women in her pursuit at the internal Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Last year, an unknown whistleblower contacted the sanatorium and reported that 3 women had died from cancer prior to Miss Dale began relations with their former boyfriends and husbands.

The disciplinary conference found opposite her and she was sacked in January, afterwards her stipulate with Macmillan, the cancer charity, was cancelled.

A orator for Miss Dale pronounced she did not encounter the initial man, who has not been named, whilst she was treating his mother and they initial met most months after she died.

Speaking to a inhabitant journal on Tuesday, Miss Dale pronounced "The sanatorium was told Id had 3 relations with men who had lost their partners to cancer. But I have had two.

"One of them was long-term and we were together for scarcely 10 years and the alternative one is the one I am in now, who I love.

"I have never had an event with a patients partner."

Mr Ellis, vocalization yesterday, pronounced a chairman he refused to name was dynamic to spoil their complacency together and combined that his partner had finished zero wrong.

He pronounced "At the finish of the day we are dual normal people perplexing to lead a normal hold up but we are not being left alone.

"Mel, my partner of eighteen years, she wasnt my wife, got cancer and had it for 7 years. Thats when I got to know Sara.

"We were only great friends. She helped my partner tremendously. Then we proposed removing closer.

"I got together with her in the summer. Id well known her for a while.

"Everybody is entitled to a life."

A Macmillan orator pronounced "We design the health professionals to adopt the top standards of caring and belong to the strictest codes of professionalism."

A orator for Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS trust, that in use Miss Dale, pronounced "A Macmillan helper has been discharged following an review in to critical allegations done per her veteran conduct."

There are over 4,500 Macmillan nurses who await around half a million cancer patients and their family groups each year.

Miss Dale is still a purebred helper and is authorised to use nonetheless the make a difference has been referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, that has the energy to set upon her off.