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Shrewsbury nurse accused of making sexual comments

A nurse is accused of making sexual comments to women in his care and massaging the feet of one patient at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

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Andrew Russell Jones, from Shrewsbury, told one woman he was helping to treat that he loved her and sent inappropriate text and online messages, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Mr Jones has been summoned to appear before a disciplinary hearing to face charges of misconduct next week in Cardiff.

He is charged with more than 40 offences which he is said to have committed against a number of patients and colleagues.

These range from calling a patient "love", to kissing a patient and telling her that he loved her.

He is also charged with telling a colleague that her ex-husband rated her out of 10 in bed and making other sexual comments to her that caused her distress.

Mr Jones faces being struck off the nursing register.

In papers filed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the majority of the allegations are said to have taken place between 2012 and 2014, when Jones was a band five community staff nurse at Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust.

He is said to have sent a number of messages to a patient's Facebook account and given her chocolates, flowers and a card.

He is also alleged to have stroked her hair, massaged her feet and sent messages to her mobile phone while she was a patient at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

It is further claimed that he called her "Princess", had a meal with her and invited her into his home.

Carey Bloomer, nurse manager of the Uplands at Oxon Care Home, Shrewsbury, said: "Mr Jones worked at The Uplands for just six weeks at the end of 2014."

A spokesman for Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust said: "Andrew Russell Jones left the Trust in 2014 and was referred to the NMC."

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