Nurse struck off register after taking ‘vulnerable’ teenage patient to hotel room

A nurse is set to be struck off the medical register after touching a 17-year-old girl’s genitals on a train and asking her to “lie to her parents”.

Michael Francis Jose was caught ‘sexting’ a patient after she was discharged from Royal Brompton Hospital in June 2020, and took her to a hotel room in Croydon, according to a medical tribunal.

The pair were only in the hotel room for a few minutes before hotel staff knocked on the door and asked to see Jose’s identification.

The nurse was arrested and interviewed twice by the police on July 17, 2020, and on August 10, 2020, but the police took no further action, according to tribunal documents.

The patient first met Jose that summer when she was being treated at the Royal Brompton Hospital from May 19 to June 8, 2020.

The pair later began talking on Instagram and Jose would send the patient messages such as “Good Morning Pretty,” and they would talk about sex, the tribunal heard.

They later arranged to meet at Tunbridge Wells railway station in Kent, before travelling to London Bridge and then on to East Croydon by train.

The tribunal heard how the nurse touched the 17-year-old, referred to as patient A, while they were on a train travelling from Croydon to Purley.

A report into the incident said: “You explained how you felt Patient A’s ‘pubic parts’ and felt the tip of your finger enter her vagina. You said that you removed your hand after approximately five seconds, and called Patient A a ‘naughty girl.’

“You told the panel that you did not digitally penetrate Patient A as it was only the tip of your finger, and not your full finger, which entered Patient A’s vagina.”

The nurse also told the 17-year-old to lie to her parents and say she had just been sightseeing in order to “protect himself,” the tribunal’s documents revealed.

The nurse was dismissed from the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust on February 17, 2021, and their contract ended on March 16, 2021.

The panel decided the nurse, who worked in Croydon and Kensington and Chelsea, will be struck off the medical register unless he appeals the NMC decision within 28 days.

Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust, of which the Royal Brompton Hospital is a part of, have been approached for comment.