She could have been answerable to the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), which is the code of practice for nurses & midwifes, confidentiality is an important aspect for patients and a large part of the code covers this. The worse case scenario is that the nurse involved may have been charged by the council with risk of losing her pin number and struck off.
This is a very sad state of affairs, I have no doubt the nurse felt devastated and possibly scared about facing possible disciplinary (I know I would have felt that way), more so with the call being broadcast for all to hear no doubt added humiliation to how she was feeling.
This was a prank which went terribly wrong, although it has to be said the broadcasters did not kill the nurse as sadly it was her choice to take her own life.
Heartbreak for all concerned including the broadcasters who I hope can eventually move on from this sad saga.

You're not wrong there mate IMHO.
Your mum only needs to buy Saturday's paper (and it's supplement) if she wants TV pages, so why does she buy the rest?
That's all I do to keep my wife onside and then I don't read the paper that comes with it.
It's The Mail, it's tosh!
I'm a free man since I cancelled the rest!

I could swap but inertia has me, oh and tradition.

Lots of my mates are Mail readers and it shows, the bile they spew forth is laughable, but mates are mates. Thick and thin and all that ... mainly thick.
I jest.

Good post.

I read that this lady had only been in the country six years and would likely not have picked up on the nuances of accent or been aware that anyone would possibly make such a call so as to be sufficiently prepared to bat it away. To find out you have been so comprehensively duped and involved probably one of the best known and widely reported families in the world, not to mention all the potential career and family consequences being duped might have, must have been agony. I can't imagine how it would have been worth taking a life but then I am not the nurse. But I can imagine the burning humiliation and the shame and the knowing that for some all of it was a big fat hilarious joke. How awful for the woman.

Miscarriage anyone?

Or will Leverson get his wishes?

You are the first that I've read who blames the nurse for being dead. It's an interesting take, or else it's the most crassly ignorant take on the state of mind of a suicide victim I've ever heard. "Her CHOICE"?? You believe this is what she would have CHOSEN for herself and her family? You miss the entire point, which is to the suicidal, there IS no choice, because in the state they find themselves in, death seems the only way out.

Your interpretation of my post is interesting, not sure how you turn the word choice into blame ?
I am more than aware that a suicide victim feels the depths of despair and sadly feel there is no way out, however it does come down to choice, she could have taken the choice to seek help, sadly she choose not to do that. A lot of people do encounter terrible stress in their lives and often consider suicide however most choose not to take that option and do indeed choose to seek help and support.
Also worth noting my post was aimed at the fact that the pranksters cannot be blamed for the sad loss of the nurse, they may have contributed to her feeling as she did but they did not kill her.

Just to reiterate that the woman who has died is not the person who revealed details of the patient's condition.

True but one could argue that the fact she had put them through gave the second nurse no cause for concern as she probably thought her colleague had done the checks already.

Aye but the first nurse doing the receptionist duties twas a swarthy skinned immigrant, therefore possibly more susceptible to dupism? What was the English Rose second nurses excuse?

What a poor ignorant crass post that is.

Irony is your friend

I think what you are clearly missing is that this poor lady obviously passed the point of any question of "choice" in the sense you are trying to imply she still had.

... because they are not in the state she clearly was


I'm not sure what the point of this distinction is. As an issue of semantics, some may find it interesting; from a criminal law point of view plainly they did not kill anyone; but as a pointless comment it is up there. On all known facts the nurse took her life as the final act in a short sequence of events in which the prank call was the first, and so the outcome of the prank was, ultimately, her death. The distinction that escapes you is that they are not being blamed for killing her, they are being blamed because she killed herself.

It is odd that you don't see this, but not that relevant, since anyone who watched a clip of the first interview with the two presenters will have no doubt that they feel it very deeply.

As I have said though, and repeat so as to be clear, I mainly blame their bosses, who took the recording and instead of doing the right thing, instead chose to play it to the world.

How do you know it was just this short sequence of events that caused her suicide? How do you know that she didn't have many other issues going on in her life that contributed to her suicide?

You don't. No one does. Speculating is pointless, much like 90% of this thread.

I would have thought that she had a lot more issues than a phone call to want to kill herself.

No doubts about that - I don't think anybody commits suicide over just one single incident, but that phone call and the inevitable storm, both privately, behind the scenes and publicly, in the global media, would have been a very hefty shove off the emotional cliff.

I think its fair to say that without the prank call, she would probably still be alive, probably still suffering some private mental turmoil over something we'll never know about, but still waiting for that final straw, which the phone call obviously was.