There’s a whole lot of reasons to despise Britain’s nationalised healthcare system the National Health Service (NHS). You can hate it because it has become a quasi-religion that the political classes demand that we worship or you can hate it for the multitude of medical mistakes it makes or the time it takes to get to be seen for a medical problem, or the 63% of maternity services that the quality inspector found to be dangerous or the inflexibility of its services or even some of the front facing staff in the NHS, who sometimes seem to be able to do a passible cosplay impression of the sort of customer service, or lack of it, that could be found in the old Soviet Union. Yes indeed, there are lots of reasons to want a better way of providing healthcare to Britons than the NHS.

But now there’s another problem for people to worry about when accessing NHS facilities such as hospitals and that is sexually perverted staff.

There’s a horrific story from the Devon Live website that illustrates just how dangerous going into an NHS hospital can be. This story is about a perverted male nurse who sexually assaulted a bed bound patient.

Devon Live said:

A male nurse who sexually assaulted a patient at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has been struck off. Depraved Sunil Mushtaq sneaked into the woman’s cubicle and rubbed his penis multiple times against her hand and arm.

He then grabbed her hand and used it to rub himself into sexual excitement while groaning. When police were called he said the woman was lying. He was caught out by semen he left at the scene and CCTV of him emerging from behind the curtain looking at his crotch.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has struck him from the nursing register after holding a fitness to practise committee.

Devon Live added:

In May 2025, Mushtaq, aged 35, pleaded guilty to sexual assault and was given a suspended sentence at Exeter Crown Court.

During his court appearance it was said his lack of remorse was down to his heritage and background. By then he was working in a chip shop. The judge said the sex assault was out of character and sending him to jail would have consequences for his family.

Mushtaq, of Upcot Crescent, Taunton, was given an 18-month suspended sentence with 180 hours of unpaid work and 30 rehabilitation days with probation. He was told to sign the sex offender register for 10 years.

It’s good that he was struck off but it’s concerning that he got so derisory a sentence. My immediate view is this should have been a case where immediate custody should have been an option because of the distress caused to such a vulnerable victim. However even if a suspended sentence was justifiably considered as a disposal method thirty days of rehabilitation work does not seem nearly enough to me bearing in mind that he was obviously stuck in a ‘cultural’ likely Islamic bubble, that it would in my view take more than thirty days of rehabilitation to sort this one out.

However this guy’s crime does make me ask another question and that’s one about NHS hiring and vetting practises. How on earth was someone so wedded to a culture where consent to men from women is too often not a consideration in their minds ever get to be a nurse? How come this man and his proclivities was not weeded out earlier?

Yet again we have a situation where the NHS has employed an absolute wrong’un and it’s been an ordinary member of the public using NHS services who has paid the price for the NHS’s hiring practises. We have a crap NHS healthcare system and too often equally crap and dangerous members of NHS staff. I ain’t ever going to applaud that.

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Original story from Devon Live

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/groaning-nurse-struck-exeter-patient-10897616