Midwife made ‘disgusting’ sexualised Benidorm joke while mum was haemorrhaging

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A midwife made a distressing joke about ‘pulling flowers’ out of a new mum who suffered traumatic birth complications ‘like in Benidorm’s Sticky Vicky show’, a misconduct panel heard.

Paul Johnson faces 29 allegations of misconduct whilst working as a senior midwife in a women and children's hospital. Some of the allegations include that he bullied and undermined staff and took two pictures of women having c-sections against their will, which he showed to someone he was having a relationship with.

It’s also alleged Mr Johnson filmed himself performing a sex act in hospital toilets. Mr Johnson was an employee at the hospital since 2002 and was responsible for managing and coordinating the labour ward before his 18 month suspension.

Before that, Mr Johnson was a well-known and respected midwife who had delivered hundreds of babies, according to Hull Daily Mail.But the second day of a four-day Nursing and Midwifery Council’s misconduct hearing today (Tuesday) heard further evidence from witnesses over allegations of a “toxic feel” on the labour ward in which some staff felt intimidated or undermined.One female staff member at the Hull Women & Children's Hospital, told the panel she had felt “disgusted” and “distressed” after Mr Johnson allegedly made a joke about a first-time mum who had “lost a large volume of blood” after haemorrhaging while giving birth.The colleague told the panel she was told to remove a wound pack - a pack placed inside the private area to stem bleeding - from the lady and asked Mr Johnson for guidance on how to do so safely.“I imagined it wasn’t any more difficult than just me removing it, but I wanted to double check because she’d lost a lot of blood and I didn’t want to do the wrong thing,”