Daily Digest Online

A 46-year-old man has been sentenced to over three years in prison for posing as a qualified nurse for more than four years, earning nearly £173,000 while working in six care homes and placing vulnerable patients at risk. A man who impersonated a registered nurse for more than four years, working in multiple care homes across northeast England, has been jailed for 40 months for fraud. Ashton Guramatunhu, 46, assumed the identity of a genuine healthcare professional when registering with a nursing agency in Warrington, Cheshire, in late 2014. Between January 2015 and April 2019, he worked at six different nursing homes, earning an estimated £172,920.94 in wages before his deception was uncovered. The fraud came to light in January 2019 when the legitimate nurse, whose identity Guramatunhu had stolen, was contacted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) about an incident at a care home where he had never worked. The victim reported the identity theft to Clevel...