Staffordshire nurse suspended after drink driver conviction on her way to work as an alcohol misuse specialist
A nurse specialising in alcohol misuse in Staffordshire has been suspended following a drink drive conviction
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An alcohol and substance misuse nurse has been suspended for 12 months after professional regulators heard that she had crashed her car while drink driving to work.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee was told that registered nurse Heather Elisabeth Taylor had crashed into a central reservation after she swerved her car to avoid a pedestrian.
Miss Taylor had then failed over six weeks to inform her employers at Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust where she was a Band 6 Health and Wellbeing Nurse for Substance Misuse based in Staffordshire.
The committee, which met in January 2025, was told that Miss Taylor had been convicted of drink driving at Telford Magistrates Court on January 24, 2023.
She had 75 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, more than twice the legal limit of 35 on the morning of December 13, 2022.
Miss Taylor, who had referred herself to the NMC, had said that while she was driving to work, she had needed to swerve to avoid a collision with a young person.
“In doing so she collided with the central reservation on the road,” the NMC was told. “The police arrived and breathalysed her.”
Panel members were told that a breathalyser result taken at the scene had a reading of three times the legal limit, with the evidential test recorded at the police station showing over two times the legal limit.
