Explicit text: Paramedic Cautioned
A paramedic with more than 20 years experience who sent an explicit text message to a patient's mother in a "moment of madness" will be allowed to continue to practise, the Health Professions Council has ruled.
Michael Windever was given a two-year caution order after a panel found his fitness to practise had been impaired by reason of misconduct.
Mr Windever, 45, was working as an emergency care practitioner for a private out-of-hours health company in Liverpool when he was called in the night to attend to a two-year-old boy.
After leaving the house, he sent a message to the patient's mother detailing his sexual desires towards her, the HPC heard.
At a hearing in London, HPC panel chairman Martin Ryder said the panel had taken into account Mr Windever's' "genuine remorse".
He said: "The panel concluded that since this was apparently an isolated incident with a low risk of repetition and that no patient had been harmed, a caution order for a period of two years was the appropriate and proportionate sanction to make in this case."
Well in there dude.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090618/tuk-explicit-text-paramedic-cautioned-6323e80.html
A paramedic with more than 20 years experience who sent an explicit text message to a patient's mother in a "moment of madness" will be allowed to continue to practise, the Health Professions Council has ruled.
Michael Windever was given a two-year caution order after a panel found his fitness to practise had been impaired by reason of misconduct.
Mr Windever, 45, was working as an emergency care practitioner for a private out-of-hours health company in Liverpool when he was called in the night to attend to a two-year-old boy.
After leaving the house, he sent a message to the patient's mother detailing his sexual desires towards her, the HPC heard.
At a hearing in London, HPC panel chairman Martin Ryder said the panel had taken into account Mr Windever's' "genuine remorse".
He said: "The panel concluded that since this was apparently an isolated incident with a low risk of repetition and that no patient had been harmed, a caution order for a period of two years was the appropriate and proportionate sanction to make in this case."
Well in there dude.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090618/tuk-explicit-text-paramedic-cautioned-6323e80.html
