"The committee described updated records which contained "meticulous detail" and suggested the woman's pain had settled as "disquieting in the extreme." A physiotherapist has been censured for updating a patient's records to support her original "inadequate" assessment that the woman's pains from running were improving when it was actually diagnosed a short time later that cancer had spread to her bones."
"A physiotherapist has been censured for updating a patient's records to support her original "inadequate" assessment that the woman's pains from running were improving when it was actually diagnosed a short time later that cancer had spread to her bones. The sanction was imposed by CORU - the regulatory body of health and social care professionals - after findings of professional misconduct and poor professional performance were made against physiotherapist Niamh Fehily."
Updated patient records were described as containing "meticulous detail" and as suggesting the woman's pain had settled, a finding called "disquieting in the extreme." A physiotherapist was censured for changing a patient's records to support an original "inadequate" assessment that running-related pains were improving, despite a later diagnosis showing cancer had spread to the patient's bones. CORU, the regulatory body for health and social care professionals, imposed the sanction after determining there was professional misconduct and poor professional performance by physiotherapist Niamh Fehily.
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