Blogger’s Note: As the NHS collapses and folds-in on itself – all kinds (and types) of aberrant behaviour is being exhibited. As the State continues to retreat and give ground to the private sector – the corruption of the private-sphere becomes ever-more evident. The NHS is an outer-shell that has been hollowed-out by subsequent UK government as the “free at the point use” principle is slowly replaced by ‘paying through the nose”. Although the working-class collectively pays for the NHS via taxation – the government takes our money – but simultaneously deprives us of proper medical treatment. The greed of the private sector now invests all NHS wards – and the minds and bodies of many NHS workers. It is now a “free for all”. NHS staff are being tried and struck-off the medical register for all kinds of deviant behaviour. ACW (18.4.2026)
‘The sex did not last very long,’ said a witness. ‘The noises went on for about two to five minutes’
Conor Gogarty Investigations editor – 16 Apr 2026
A mental health nurse has been struck off after having sex on three occasions at the hospital where she worked. Kate Sullivan was found by a misconduct panel to have repeatedly engaged in unprofessional behaviour while working at Bridgend’s Glanrhyd Hospital.
Sullivan was based at the hospital’s Rowan ward – an all-male secure rehab unit with a high number of admissions from prison. She had been acting up as a band seven ward manager, her fitness to practise hearing was told.
From October 2020 to summer 2021 she was in a relationship with a colleague which she did not declare to her employer, Swansea Bay University Health Board, which was a breach of workplace policy. Stay in the know by making sure you’re receiving our daily newsletter
She would later admit: “I engaged in a casual relationship with a fellow colleague and he was working as a band two on the ward at that time.”
The panel found Sullivan had sex with this man – referred to only as Colleague A – in their workplace on March 4, 2021, and on January 8 and 17 of the following year.
On the first occasion Sullivan was on a night shift when she took a female co-worker into the hospital’s “hub shop”. Sullivan made it clear to the co-worker that she and Colleague A wanted to be left alone, the panel heard.
“[The female co-worker] vacated to the adjacent room leaving Colleague A and Miss Sullivan alone… She then heard sounds consistent with sexual intercourse coming from the adjacent room,” said panel chair Alisa Newman.
In her witness statement the “very uncomfortable” co-worker said: “I could hear the desk was banging against the wall and I could hear them both making noises.
“There was no-one else around, and all of the patients were asleep, so I was certain the noise I heard came from them next door. The sex did not last very long. The noises went on for about two to five minutes.”
On the second occasion Sullivan texted the same co-worker saying she had just engaged in sexual activity with Colleague A in the “recharge room”.
On the final date she sent a similar message: “Haha [Colleague A] just had sex with me.” The then-couple were both on a night shift at the time.
Sullivan denied the sexual activity and claimed she would “fabricate stories” to keep her co-worker interested in talking to her.
But the panel found it “inherently unlikely that Miss Sullivan would have invented a story that she and Colleague A had sex in the workplace”.
Other concerns over Sullivan’s conduct included refusing to examine a patient who had a rash on their groin and breaching confidentiality by disclosing colleagues’ sickness absence reasons to other staff, the panel heard.
Sullivan manipulated her scheduled duties to work with Colleague A more often. She also turned up to work a shift she had not been assigned, which the panel found was because Colleague A was working on that date.
There was an occasion when she decided to suddenly walk out of the ward with Colleague A which caused the unit to be short-staffed and unsafe.
She also criticised the paperwork of a colleague in front of others and called a different colleague “a lazy c***”, the panel found.
Sullivan was found to have “knowingly breached professional boundaries” by allowing a patient into her office with the door closed and blinds down for around 20 minutes. This was especially inappropriate given the patient’s “sexualised behaviour and difficulties in understanding boundaries”, said Ms Newman.
The panel also concluded she had breached workplace policy by hugging the same patient and laughing when he called her “babe”.
On another occasion this patient had grabbed a different female employee and grinded against her. Sullivan was criticised by the panel for failing to make a report despite being aware her colleague had been treated in this way.
Sullivan, who had spent seven years with the health board, was dismissed for gross misconduct. She did not attend the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise hearing.
Striking her from the nursing register Ms Newman said: “Miss Sullivan’s actions were significant departures from the standards expected of a registered nurse and are fundamentally incompatible with her remaining on the register.
“[Strike-off] is necessary to mark the importance of maintaining public confidence in the profession and to send to the public and the profession a clear message about the standard of behaviour required of a registered nurse.”
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 