Nowhere have I found it reported that these were specific to 2015-16, it seems to be an assumption people have made.
I think we understand that it is one handover sheet per shift (could you be given more than 1 sheet?) and she can't possibly have had 257 shifts in one year (a regular 5 day week is about 230 shifts, and nurses on 12 hour shifts average less than a 4 day week) - nor would any of her explanations make any sense at all and would be immediately called out by police/prosecution if she had in fact taken home every single handover sheet for a year while saying she may have taken some home accidentally at times.
One presumes that most of the time she disposed of them before leaving the hospital, sometimes they were forgotten in a pocket or her bag after a shift, it may be that the ones left are not even all the ones she forgot about and she managed to dispose of some at later dates - it certainly doesn't seem like she was stashing them away in a particular place to take out and read over and over.
This all happened on one particular shift, no? I wouldn't characterise that as representative of a pattern of behaviour.
And this is evidence of what exactly? Seems the sort of reaction one might easily encounter regardless of whether everything was done correctly, sometimes you do everything correctly but someone else didn't prepare the relative for what was to come, sometimes good doctors and nurses say the wrong thing.
Same event as above or a second time this occurred?
This happens often, I was advised by my colleagues to take a break last week, I routinely advise colleagues to take a break. I assume this is the "I know my own feelings" abrupt response? I imagine everyone on the team was advised at times to take a break, sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't, the main difference is we haven't been scrutinising them for 6 months and 6 years before that. We don't seem to have this over and over again, and there was no real sign that anyone felt she was doing a less than excellent job (except the consultants) until it all came to a head.
Have followed pretty closely, just not constantly. Kept apprised of the evidence, but not really followed the discussion since about child E or F or something, just dipped in and out - sorry if that wasn't clear.
I don't think apart from the massive trawling operation, it amounts to anything out of the ordinary. When you take snippets out of context from over a year and put them all together and frame them the way the prosecution has, it looks like a lot more than it is and I'm sure they could do the same for almost every nurse that worked there, even if it looked a bit different.
I think under different circumstances, if the 257 handover notes came to light, they might be forced to act in some way on that, but I also think you'd be able to find other people with similar accumulated volumes that they've never gotten round to disposing of. Certainly would cause quite a problem if you fired everyone who'd brought home handover notes 257 or more times over several years - though I'd expect in most cases they'd have been properly disposed of.
