{"id":290710,"date":"2025-07-25T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290710\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:39:13","slug":"upton-altered-records-to-include-peggie-patient-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290710\/","title":{"rendered":"Upton altered records to include Peggie patient concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ms Peggie is suing her employer after she was suspended following an incident with Dr Upton on Christmas Eve in 2023, where she objected to the trans medic&#8217;s use of the female changing room.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She also made reference to the situation being similar to men\u00a0using the female prison estate, with Dr Upton lodging a formal complaint.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Peggie was placed on special leave in December 2023 and suspended in January 2024. Patient safety concerns were then raised.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The nurse at Victoria Hospital in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/kirkcaldy-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirkcaldy<\/a> has been cleared of all misconduct allegations.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Friday, the tribunal heard that Dr Upton first shared the phone notes with Peter Donaldson, an information security manager at NHS Fife over Microsoft Teams in May 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He did not perform a forensic examination of the computer, not did he personally check the device.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  IT forensic expert Jim Borthwick conducted an independent investigation at the request of Ms Peggie&#8217;s legal team, where concerns over NHS Fife&#8217;s investigation were revealed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His investigation revealed that Dr Upton had logged an interaction with Ms Peggie on December 18, 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It originally said: &#8220;Working nights. Won&#8217;t make eye contact. Won&#8217;t acknowledge my presence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Not had direct conversation yet but I can feel the dismissal\/hostility.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There was no other information added from that evening, with the next log noting the Christmas Eve dispute.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, Mr Borthwick&#8217;s independent investigation revealed that the log from December 18 was then updated on Boxing Day 2023 at 1:51am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Upton had added: &#8220;Needed to ask Sandie a question about a child patient who left before being seen as she had triaged them. Couldn&#8217;t find her. HCA (healthcare worker) (Rehana) offered to look for her.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Both came back. Rehana asked Sandie if any concerns while both were in front of me.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Sandie didn&#8217;t look at or otherwise engage with me. Responded she had no concerns.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I said thanks and that I needed to know for the letter. She did not acknowledge me either through word or eye contact and left the area.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In evidence, Mr Borthwick said the notes were not &#8220;contemporaneous&#8221;, adding: &#8220;There appears to have been changes at different dates and times, so it has been edited.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The evidence bundle did not include the other patient safety concern which alleged that Ms Peggie walked out on a patient in the resuscitation room when Dr Upton entered.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The evidence bundle seen by The Herald also revealed Dr Upton logged two separate changing rooms incidents with Ms Peggie in October 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She first said on October 16, Ms Peggie walked into the changing room while Dr Upton was changing.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The nurse looked &#8220;taken aback,&#8221; according to Dr Upton&#8217;s note.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Upton said she said &#8216;hey&#8217;, with Ms Peggie replying &#8216;hi&#8217;, before the nurse abruptly walked out, according to the phone notes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Upton&#8217;s notes continue: &#8220;Once I&#8217;d gotten changed I left the changing room and she was waiting outside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;She then entered the changing room despite having witnessed another doctor enter in the meantime.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I know from hearing the other doctor mention it that she and the nurse had a conversation in the changing room.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;All very odd.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Can&#8217;t help but feel slightly upset\/put off by this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Disappointed as appears that she chose not to enter because of me and didn&#8217;t think I belonged there.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Upton ended that note: &#8220;Sad times :\/&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On October 25, 2023, logged: &#8220;She did it again. Sandie was in the changing room when I walked in. Christina (consultant) came in too.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Christina and I chatting. Presumably Sandie left as I then found her waiting outside to go back in once I&#8217;d left. Didn&#8217;t even say hi. Weird.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In his report, Mr Borthwick questioned the method used by NHS Fife&#8217;s IT team, he warned the &#8220;accounts should have been examined by a digital forensic expert&#8221; and said he was &#8220;at a loss&#8221; as to why Dr Upton provided &#8220;such important evidence&#8221; through a Teams call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Peggie is suing her employer after she was suspended following an incident with Dr Upton on Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-290710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114914155947839591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}