A COUNCILLOR banned from entering Livingston's St John's Hospital without permission says "nobody is big enough" to stop her going back.
Ellen Glass was accused of taking notes from files at a nurses' station on Ward 14 and warned by NHS Lothian that she may have broken data protection laws. Nurses also alleged she pretended to be a hospital manager, then an MP, just to sneak into the
ward.
But Ms Glass, 62, insists she can do what she likes because she is "acting in the interests of patients".
She claims she's already returned to St John's without anyone noticing. She said: "There's nobody big enough to stop me going into St John's. As far as I'm concerned that hospital is mine, because of my background in nursing since I was 18."
"I was acting in the interests of patients having heard about horrendous staffing levels.
"I was there on Monday and nobody stopped me."
NHS Lothian wrote to her saying she was barred from entering the hospital unless accompanied by a senior manager. They said a nurse complained when she copied information from a note.
Ms Glass said the note said "8.9 per-cent sickness level" – which she claimed was "a taunt to the nurses."
NHS Lothian said it was investigating the contents of the note.
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