NHS nurse given a rental Mercedes

[a.twiddler]

Actually the title irritates me. Does the OP somehow object to a NHS nurse being "given" a rental Mercedes that she could take home? Would it be different if it was say, a Skoda? Did she pay the rental from her salary or was a vehicle an inclusive part of her job? Does it matter? There are all sorts of nurses, and all sorts of individual schemes for community nurses' vehicles.

After all, this happened in 2019 and for some reason seems more important to the OP than the fact that the mention of the car was only incidental to the nurse's son foolishly knee capping a love rival in his mum's work vehicle, like you do, (maybe on white leather seats!), and his mum apparently trying to cover it up presumably to protect him, if I've got the rather poorly presented story right. A most peculiar tale.

 

[Arrowfoot]

I strongly suspect THE ' hired by the NHS' is poor journalism. Having worked both in the NHS and Local Authorities and having had a 'lease car' (not now) - you can 'theoretically' choose any car you want, though you have to pay for it. Lease cars tend to come through large specialist dealers, who get a significant reduction in price off manufacturers. When you take out the lease you have to estimate your personal mileage (& are taxed on this quite highly) - then you have to estimate your business, mileage and if you go over either, you get hammered with tax. The bigger the car the more you pay. You have it for 3 years then it goes back. It's just a lease deal, in short, and at the end of the year I had a wack of money taken off my tax allowance. The car she had was a hybrid so there may have been Govt incentives, we don't know her job as a nurse and she might have been a well-ish paid nurse manager. Though the disturbing bit for me is the attempted murder / shooting bit...

Its across all media. Initially it was just Mercedes, then the model. The car is central to her prosecution. So it is unlikely to be poor journalism across the board.

Your response does indicate poor use of the budget. You will never see this sort of abuse in the private sector including MNC. Hence my surprise.

Large-scale reduction / discount from manufacturers seems hollow. It sounds like NHS has no choice or leverage to get smaller cars as bigger cars are cheaper.

I did not want to put the crime involved earlier as it will draw the attention away from an NHS practice that needs an answer. NHS consumes the biggest slice of our budget.

At the very least a response from NHS is warranted and it will dispel any claims about poor journalism or any other excuse. It will help if they clarified how long she kept it for context.

At the end of the day, it could be just one Trust that is mismanaging it resources.

I hope they do not provide some silly excuse that manufacturers gave a sweet deal on a Mercedes Sports model. I am sure they won't as they will laughed at.

 

[Drago]

I guess we'll never really know.

 

[winjim]

@craigwend @CanucksTraveller

https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/28/nurse-pulled-a-sickie-to-clean-car-after-son-shot-rival-on-back-seat-15329584/ View attachment 611299

Good grief, talk about burying the lede.

 

[theclaud]

I did not want to put the crime involved earlier as it will draw the attention away from an NHS practice that needs an answer.

Have a word with yourself.

 

[Drago]

Her son is like a veritable Dwayne Johnson with Albert Einstein's head.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The "given by NHS" angle here is almost certainly a red herring.

Our company car scheme gives you an allowance on top of your salary but allows you to choose any car; if it costs more than your allowance then your salary reduces accordingly.

Unless she's some sort of senior manager then it's almost certain a car of the sort reported wouldn't be within a nurse's allowance.

 

[Dolorous Edd]

Philip Barnes prosecuting said: ''That car was a lease hire vehicle, hired to Patricia Dean via her employer, the National Health Service."

I suspect that this very strange phrasing was chosen deliberately by the prosecuting lawyer to make the accused's actions appear as heinous as possible. Not only did she do something bad, in the process she abused a gratuitous perk given to her by the angels.

 

[Joffey]

You will never see this sort of abuse in the private sector including MNC.

The OP is really trolling now. 10/10 for effort

 

[Milzy]

What a terrible no story & waste of a thread.

 

[Pale Rider]

The Mail has the car as 'leased to her by her employers' which is probably about right.

I'm aware staff at my local hospital can get cars 'through work', although not all do because they don't regard the scheme as especially cheap.

The Mail also correctly points out the maximum sentence for the offence is 10 years, although I think it's far from certain she will hear the clang of the prison gates.

There will be lots of heavy mitigation along the lines of her being an asset to the community, and the rather mealy mouthed observation her attempt to prevent prosecution of her son failed.

His future is more certain, a shotgun kneecapping will likely push his sentence into double figures.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...seats-Mercedes-son-kneecapped-love-rival.html

 

[Drago]

Her ddfence will conveniently forget to mention that she won't be an asset to the community once she is struck off.

Once honesty and integrity has disappeared she'll be lucky indeed to escape with a couple of years suspension from practicing, and being struck off is a near certainty, so sending her off to Butlins for a year or so will have no impact upon the community.

But the defence will trot it out in mitigation and its quite possible the Court will swallow it.

 

[a.twiddler]

Bearing in mind that Registered Nurses have to prove a that they meet a number of strict criteria not least of which is "being of good character" when they annually renew their registration with the NMC and are subject to even further scrutiny at their 3 yearly revalidation it would be hard to see how she could comply with the requirements after such a conviction.

 

[PaulB]

The OP is really trolling now. 10/10 for effort

He's desperate. Really clutching at straws now.

 

[T4tomo]

The OP is really trolling now. 10/10 for effort

He's desperate. Really clutching at straws now.

couldn't agree more! no wonder the NACA bit has been sectioned off if this is the baiting that went on in there..