Paul Grayson, the former Sheffield nurse who was convicted of sexually assaulting unconscious patients earlier this year, is to be struck off the nursing register.
Grayson, who was a staff nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from 1999 to 2000, was in May 2022 sentenced to 16 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to 23 offences, including sexual assault, voyeurism and possessing indecent images of children.
Many of these offences took place at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital’s day case theatre unit between 2017 and 2020, where Grayson worked.
Paul Grayson
He was found to have recorded video of the genitals of four female patients while they were in the recovery room of the hospital, sexually assaulting three of the patients in order to record the images.
He had also installed recording equipment in the in the women’s staff toilets at the hospital in order to secretly film his female colleagues.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) initially issued an interim suspension order against Grayson on his arrest in December 2020.
On 30 November 2022, an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee concluded that Grayson was no longer fit to practise because his conduct had “breached the fundamental tenets of the nursing profession” and “brought its reputation into disrepute”.
The panel took the decision to strike off Grayson from the register in light of his “very serious criminal offences, conduct over a prolonged period, gross breach of trust, risk of serious harm to the public, risk of serious damage to reputation of the profession and the substantial length of custodial sentence”.
The former staff nurse is currently at HMP Doncaster serving a 16-year prison sentence, which includes a 12-year prison sentence with a four-year extended license period.
