A mental health nurse has been struck off after asking a Polish colleague whether he was “some sort of Nazi” while out on a Christmas do. Rachel Hole was also accused of using the N-word while out with work colleagues amid a string of racist incidents spanning a number of years while working as a ward manager on The Hazel Ward, a Low Secure Mental Health Ward at The Chichester Centre in Chichester. Ms Hole also scared a BAME colleague by putting a white sheet over her head in a Halloween prank but later defended herself by saying she was “hardly one of the Ku Klux Klan”. A nursing and midwifery tribunal heard that Ms Hole, who worked for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for more than 20 years, was accused of multiple racially aggravated incidents between 2015 and 2020. The tribunal was told that Ms Hole had been out with co-workers around either December 2017 or 2018 at a Christmas dinner in a Chinese restaurant when a Polish colleague came over to their table and took some food. One anonymous witness, a occupational therapist technician at Sussex Partnership, alleged that Ms Hole said to their Polish colleague “Are you some sort of Nazi? Share”.
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