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Alison Watts, a nurse in Heckmondwike, has been struck off for performing hundreds of smear tests while unqualified A LOCAL nurse with "deep-seated issues" around dishonesty has been struck off after carrying out hundreds of smear tests on women over a two-year period, while she was unqualified. Alison Watts, who worked at Undercliffe Surgery in Heckmondwike, was charged with carrying out 461 cervical screenings between June 2017 and November 2017 while unqualified to do so by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). She was also charged with failing to notify the surgery she had faile...

Nearly 500 women had to have their cervical smear tests redone after it emerged the nurse who carried them out was not qualified. 'Dishonest' Alison Watts failed to tell her bosses at an NHS surgery that she failed her course and continued screening women for almost two and a half years. When it was discovered Watts had not passed the qualification, 461 women had to be recalled to have the uncomfortable cervix test again so they could have 'quality assured' tests. Now Watts has been struck off for the shocking breach of trust, with a tribunal ruling that she put patients at 'significant risk ...