‘I’ve been treated like the accused’: NHS nurse reveals 8 years of hell after raising sexual harassment claims
A nurse has described her eight years of hell as she fought the NHS over its failure to properly investigate claims she was sexually harassed by a colleague.
Michelle Russell, who has 30 years of experience, first raised allegations of sexual harrassment by a male nurse to managers at the mental health unit where she worked in London in 2015.
Years of battling her case saw the trust’s initial investigation condemned as “catastrophically flawed” while the nursing watchdog, the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), apologised for taking so long to review her complaint and referred itself to its own regulator over the matter.
With the case still unresolved, Ms Russell will see her career in the NHS end this week after she was not offered any further contract work.
Speaking to she said: “If I’m going to lose my job, I want
