What a tragic case. The blame culture which now exists in the UK ensures that the only beneficiary will be the family solicitor. There have certainly been strongly worded posts here. I prefer to reserve judgement until the full facts are known. Why the press should choose to describe this nurse's home, name her husband and four children (with ages) eludes me. What we do know is that the CPS could not prove she intended to cause harm or her actions were reckless, so there was insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction for grievous bodily harm. We also know that the collection of agencies has 27,500 personnel on its books, and monitoring by the Care Quality Commission of providers of care is now much tougher. The nurse is suspended while the NMC looks into this case.
The patient's life has been ruined, his family are devastated, and the nurse and her family will also be devastated. I cannot make a judgement on whether managers should also lose their jobs, not knowing all the facts.
It's a forlorn hope that the litigation / blame culture which now exists in the UK will ever revert to how it was in the early years of our (still) wonderful NHS.
