Nurse struck off after holidays with patient

A NURSE at the exclusive Priory rehab clinic has been struck off for having a “destructive” four-year relationship with a patient.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) barred Janet Wilma Toy from the profession after she admitted going for bikini waxes with a female patient who had been checked in to the £600-a-night clinic.

The 43-year-old – who called the Priory the “nut hut” – also went on exotic foreign holidays, shared a bed and sunbathed topless with the nurse, the NMC was told.

According to the NMC, Toy “did not demonstrate true remorse and a true acknowledgement of the consequences of her behaviour”.

The NMC found 33 of the 34 charges against her proved, after she admitted 13 in a letter to the conduct committee.

The patient, a young woman who suffered from severe depression and an eating disorder, was named only as Patient A at an NMC hearing in Edinburgh. Giving evidence from behind a screen at the hearing, Patient A told how the nurse “made her feel special”, after she was booked into the Priory clinic in Glasgow in 2004.

The patient also described boozy foreign holidays with Toy, of Carluke, South Lanarkshire.