NHS trust sacks staff over attacks victims' records

Eleven members of staff, including doctors and nurses, person been sacked by an NHS spot for inappropriately accessing aesculapian records of the Nottingham attacks victims.

Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and gramps Ian Coates, were stabbed to decease by Valdo Calocane - who was diagnosed with paranoid schizoprehnia - connected 13 June 2023.

It emerged successful 2025 that unit astatine Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust had accessed the victims' records without need, prompting an interior investigation.

On Thursday, NUH confirmed 11 members of unit had been dismissed, 12 had last written warnings and 2 had archetypal written warnings.

The spot it had informed Nottinghamshire Police and the Information Commissioner's Office of the outcomes.

It comes arsenic a nationalist statutory enquiry continues, examining the lead-up to the attacks and decisions and actions taken successful the aftermath.

NUH confirmed the unit progressive successful the investigations included doctors, nurses, registered aesculapian professionals, and admin and clerical colleagues.

The families of Barnaby, Grace and Ian were informed of the result of the investigations this week, the spot added.

Further investigations are ongoing into inappropriate access, including into the files of surviving victims of the attacks, Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski.

Dr Manjeet Shehmar, aesculapian manager astatine NUH, said: "The families of Ian, Grace and Barnaby person had to endure overmuch symptom and heartache, and I americium genuinely atrocious that the actions of immoderate of our unit person added to that.

"To entree the aesculapian records of our patients without a morganatic crushed is wholly unacceptable and we are doing each we tin to place wherever and however that has happened."

Shehmar is expected to springiness her grounds to the Nottingham Inquiry adjacent week.

The spot said follow-up enactment would instrumentality spot with autarkic regulators, specified arsenic the Nursing and Midwifery Council and General Medical Council.