A doctor has admitted she misled other medics about the health of a colleague returning to the UK from West Africa with Ebola in 2014. <\/p>\n
Dr Hannah Ryan told a disciplinary hearing she had been in a state of “disbelief, fear and panic” after finding out nurse Pauline Cafferkey had had a high temperature, a warning sign. <\/p>\n
Instead of alerting public health officials at Heathrow Airport, both continued on their journey home.<\/p>\n
Dr Ryan denies misconduct. <\/p>\n
Dr Ryan and Ms Cafferkey had been working in Sierra Leone with other volunteers to help treat Ebola victims. <\/p>\n
And on 28 December they had landed at Heathrow, “keen” to be home for the Christmas holiday period, the tribunal heard.<\/p>\n
They queued to get clearance from Public Health England medics to be allowed to leave. <\/p>\n
Trying to help PHE staff with the process, they agreed to take and record their own temperatures.<\/p>\n
Dr Ryan had then taken Ms Cafferkey’s temperature and got a reading of 38.2C – higher than normal. <\/p>\n
But a lower temperature, 37.2C, was actually recorded, and Ms Cafferkey was then allowed to catch her connecting flight to Glasgow to go home. <\/p>\n
She fell seriously ill the next day and tested positive for Ebola.<\/p>\n
Dr Ryan has admitted misleading others and that she “acquiesced” in the wrong temperature being given, but denies misconduct by her actions at the airport and during a subsequent investigation by Public Health England.<\/p>\n
The tribunal was adjourned until tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n
In September 2016, the Nursing and Midwifery Council cleared Ms Cafferkey of misconduct over claims she had hidden her infection, after a panel ruled that her judgement had been impaired by her illness.<\/p>\n
In November, another colleague, senior nurse Donna Woods, was suspended by the NMC for two months. The panel found Mrs Wood suggested a lower temperature be recorded on Ms Cafferkey’s screening form so they could pass through checks at passport control more quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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