Mental health nurse demanded colleague 'speak English properly' and mimicked accent during 'racist' tirade

A nurse for Greater Manchester’s troubled mental health trust has been stricken off after going on a ‘racist’ tirade.

Neill Antony Gold was named in a report from a misconduct hearing, held and published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The hearing heard how Mr Gold had called a colleague ‘a foreign c***’, mimicking their pronunciation of a ward name, and demanding they ‘speak English properly’ over the course of the rant.

Neill Gold was a nurse at the Edenfield Centre, a troubled inpatient facility run by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH). The centre was exposed in an explosive Panorama programme last year, which featured allegations of staff abusing vulnerable, mentally ill patients.

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The council’s fitness to practise committee held the tribunal from May 15 to May 25, resulting in the mental health nurse being stricken off and receiving a suspension order. The report reads how as well as calling multiple co-workers ‘c***s’, Mr Gold abandoned wards while on duty without informing the necessary managers, and walked out of wards with the medication keys which ‘should never be taken off a unit due to them being critical in delivering patient care’.

He also asked a colleague to ‘forge his signature’ on official paperwork.

The panel recorded how it found allegations that Mr Gold verbally abused colleagues ‘proved’. The report reads that, on February 28, 2021, he ‘swore repeatedly around colleagues and within hearing distance of patients’.

Mr Gold then ‘banged a telephone receiver down and described the ward manager as a “useless c***”’, called another co-worker a ‘foreign c***’, told them they needed to ‘speak English