A care home worker has been struck off after a series of blunders put disabled residents at risk. Michael Haire was investigated following complaints about his time as a support worker at Capability Scotland’s Upper Springland centre in Perth. Now a Scottish Social Services Council panel has found Mr Haire guilty of misconduct over a catalogue of “serious” failures between April 2012 and September 2014. The body ruled that Mr Haire, from Perth, had given the wrong medicine – or wrong dosages – to four patients. He had also failed to record giving medicine to a service user and also didn’t report another occasion when a different resident had refused their medicine. In September 2014, he failed to draw up a record sheet before giving medication to patient named only as HH, which meant the user got more medication than was prescribed. In a report by a SSSC sub-committee, a spokesman said the care worker had been well trained in the practices of administering medication and had “significant experience” in the care sector.
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