Author: Sophie Harrington

Sarah Jayne Didymus issued prescriptions for Ozempic and Trulicity in five patients’ names and hid them in their records. The Nursing and Midwifery Council called her conduct “sustained, calculated, and planned”. A nurse has been struck off after falsifying patient records to obtain weight-loss drugs for herself at NHS-subsidised prices. Sarah Jayne Didymus worked as an advanced nurse practitioner at Port View Surgery in Saltash, Cornwall, from 2021 until she resigned in 2023. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) found she prescribed Ozempic and Trulicity in the names of five patients, printed the prescriptions on paper to avoid electronic trails,…