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A take care A man who made several sexually inappropriate and racist comments while working in prisons has been fired.
Paul Brian Vogler was a registered nurse at HMP Huntercombe, HMP Pentonville and HMP Wormwood Scrub Until his suspension in 2020.
A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) The panel heard that Vogler made far-right political comments to colleagues and asked patients about their crimes.
While working at HMP Huntercombe in 2018, Vogler was found challenging Patient A about her offending, before he searched for her using Google and showed her written articles on his computer screen.
While working at HMP Pentonville in 2019, he made sexually inappropriate comments about two colleagues, was shown videos of far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos and made inappropriate jokes during an appointment with a patient who had self-harmed.
The committee also heard that during his employment, Vogler was “aggressive” toward black staff members and made “derisive” comments about them.
This included questioning his medical practice and commenting on his food choices. He also referred to Islam as a “death cult” and referred to his associates as “f****** leftist c****s.”
Vogler had previously been suspended following several disciplinary investigations and resigned in 2020.
He has now been cleared by the panel by imposing an interim suspension order for 18 months to cover any appeal period “for the protection of the public”.
In its written decision, the NMC said: “In the Panel’s view Mr Vogler’s misconduct exposed deep-seated behavioral problems, including racial and sexual discrimination. It determined that, given the seriousness of the concerns, the deep-seated behavioral problems and Mr Vogler’s lack of insight, there were no appropriate, proportionate and practical conditions that could be drawn up.”
The panel said that although there were “no concerns” regarding his clinical competence, his racist and sexist attitudes were “fundamentally incompatible” with his remaining on the register.
“Mr. Vogler has violated the basic principles of the nursing profession of putting people first, practicing safely, and promoting professionalism and trust in the nursing profession,” it said.