An NHS Tayside health visitor will go before a panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council next week on a string of allegations.
Kathleen O’Connell is accused of between September 1 2009 and July 6 2010, while she worked as a health visitor based at the Douglas Family Medical Group, failing to record home visits or contacts with families until the dates set out in a schedule.
She is also accused of failing to conduct an appropriate handover of two children to a Ms A by not informing her that there were any agencies involved with the family and not passing on the paper records for the family promptly after the handover.
It is also alleged she failed to complete family health needs assessments for seven children and did not arrange to have face to face contact with the family within five working days of being notified of the transfer in the cases of three children.
She is accused of not carrying out or recording home visits between October 8 2009 and December 9 2009 in relation to one child and not visiting another child until 18 days after his birth.
In relation to one child it is alleged she did not visit the family between December 2009 and July 2010 and she is also accused of not prioritising a referral made by one child’s GP on December 14 2009.
She is further accused of failing to respond appropriately to requests to visit the family of one client.