A nurse who was sacked from the NHS after offering a bible to a cancer patient and encouraged him to sing The Lord is My Shepherd was fairly dismissed, a court has ruled.
Sarah Kuteh was fired from her job at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Kent, in 2016 for repeatedly talking to patients about her faith and handing out a bible, in breach of Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) rules. Kuteh, 50, from Sierra Leone worked as an NHS nurse for 15 years.
The court documents also point to a number of other incidents, in which Kuteh told a bowel cancer patient in April 2016 'that if he prayed to God he would have a better chance of survival'.
Another complaint, again in April 2016, came from a patient who said Kuteh 'spent more time talking about religion than doing the assessment', and another, the same month, came from a patient who said they didn't want to see Koteh as they 'didn't like preaching'.