Filipino psychopath with forged qualifications poisoned 22 patients in the UK

**Monseratto** · May 19th, 2015 05:04 PM

After the *** scandal between 2 male nurses in front of a elderly patient...

Pressure was growing last night for an inquiry into vetting failures that allowed a nurse to kill two patients and poison scores more in an NHS hospital.

Victorino Chua, a 49-year-old father of two, attacked the very people he was supposed to be caring for. At the height of his poisoning spree, police even considered shutting down Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.

Police believe the ‘narcissistic psychopath’ from the Philippines used forged qualifications to register as a nurse here. They even suspect that someone might have sat his nursing exam for him in his homeland.

Ahead of Chua’s sentencing today there were calls for a public inquiry and a review of how foreign nurses are recruited.
It can also be revealed that:

Chua graduated from a nursing college now shut down amid concerns about its poor standards and finances;

Lax vetting – including acceptance of photocopied documents – allowed him to register as a nurse in the UK;

No checks were made with his employers at the Philippines hospital which he left after being accused of theft;

Detectives fear Chua may have claimed the lives of other patients both here and in the Philippines;

The trade in fake nursing qualifications that can be bought for as little as £43;

Occupational therapists at Stepping Hill Hospital failed to raise concerns about Chua’s deteriorating mental state in the run-up to the poisonings;

Victims of the poisonings are in line for millions of pounds in compensation payments from Chua’s NHS hospital trust;

Chua, who became a British citizen in 2008, could use human rights laws to avoid deportation.

Last night, the recently retired prosecutor who helped bring Chua to justice said he believes there could be hundreds of nurses using fake qualifications in UK hospitals.

For Victorino ‘Vic’ Chua a nursing career in England was a ticket out of poverty. He had been earning just £3 a day as a nurse when he answered a newspaper advert to work in a UK care home.

Chua set his sights on working in Britain after learning of Tony Blair’s plan – announced in 2000 – to recruit thousands of overseas nurses.

But it now seems clear that he should never have been working for the NHS. An original transcript of his nursing qualifications suggest that his exam marks may have been tampered with.

Demands for an inquiry into foreign nurse recruitment intensified last night in the aftermath of the Chua scandal.

Hospitals have spent £1million in three years hiring nurses from 16 countries including the Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Lithuania, Greece, Poland, Sweden, Italy, India, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

The NHS is now so dependent on foreign nurses that half of hospital trusts have staged recruitment drives overseas since 2012 and there are 23,000 Filipino nurses on the UK register.

Freedom of Information responses also reveal that managers are so desperate to fill vacancies that they are failing to test the nurses’ English properly. Instead, they rely on the judgement of recruitment agencies. The former chief prosecutor in the North West, Nazir Afzal, told BBC North West that during the Chua investigation his team wrote to Home Office and Health Department officials and nursing regulators raising their concerns about potentially fraudulent qualifications. He said: ‘The concerns related to the robustness... of the qualification and training regime that they had in the Philippines at that time.’

Katherine Murphy of the Patients Association said: ‘If we do employ nurses from other countries, we must ensure that they are fully qualified and competent to carry out their duties and that they are competent enough in English to effectively communicate.’
One of Chua’s victims, Kath Murray, 57, backed calls for an inquiry into foreign recruitment.

Read more: Inquiry demanded after Victorino Chua poisoned 22 patients with forged qualifications | Daily Mail Online
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**jave** · May 19th, 2015 07:27 PM

Yay for pinoy pride.

**jaypee10** · May 19th, 2015 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by jave

Yay for pinoy pride.

trade mark na yata ng pinoy ito..

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Originally Posted by jave

Yay for pinoy pride.

trade mark na yata ng pinoy ito..

**Monseratto** · May 19th, 2015 07:50 PM

Ayan...nasa international news yung University of Recto...

EXCLUSIVE: For just £43, I bought the bogus papers that ‘qualified’ me as a nurse: Reporter uncovers rampant trade in counterfeit certificates as questions are raised over killer nurse's credentials

Nursing diplomas can be bought for as little as £43 in the Philippines, I can reveal today.

Doubts about Victorino Chua’s qualifications emerged after this newspaper alerted police to suspicions over his credentials back in 2012.

And – helped by my photographer colleague Jamie Wiseman - I have found there is a rampant trade in bogus exam certificates in Manila, with fixers and forgers always on hand to fabricate any document.

The Mail’s revelations are a major embarrassment to ministers, hospital chiefs and officials at the Nursing and Midwifery Council, which regulates nursing.

In March 2013, the council imposed a temporary recruitment freeze on foreign nurses amid fears that workers could have faked documents to get jobs here. Yet hundreds of nurses are still being recruited from the Philippines by NHS trusts, because of a massive shortfall of staff.

The ‘passport’ to a nursing job in the UK is provided by organised crime networks who employ some of the world’s best forgers.

On Recto Avenue in downtown Manila are stalls openly offering fake nursing degrees, education records, diploma pictures, police clearance to work overseas, passports, driving licences and birth and marriage certificates. Police turn a blind eye in return for bribes.

When Stephen visited Recto Avenue, dubbed ‘Xerox Alley’, a fixer for the forgers went through a list of documents required to become qualified - all of which were easily obtained

The fixer (pictured) even helpfully suggested which date he should graduate from Manila’s respected nursing college at Our Lady of Fatima University

When I visited Recto Avenue, dubbed ‘Xerox Alley’, a fixer for the forgers went through a list of documents I would require to become qualified, including a degree certificate, police clearance to work overseas and employment certificates and references.

All these were supplied for a total of £43. The fixer even helpfully suggested which date I should graduate from Manila’s respected nursing college at Our Lady of Fatima University.

Of course, the vast majority of Filipino nurses are qualified and have the correct credentials to work in the UK.

In this impoverished nation struggle to find the money to finish their degree courses and are tempted to buy their qualifications they need to obtain work in the UK where salaries are vastly higher

But many in this impoverished nation struggle to find the money to finish their degree courses and are tempted to buy their qualifications they need to obtain work in the UK where salaries are vastly higher.
In the run-up to yesterday’s court verdicts, NMC chief executive Jackie Smith told the Mail its vetting system was now ‘robust’ and that her staff insisted on seeing original education documents from prospective foreign nurses.

But a source close to the Stepping Hill case said: ‘Vetting of nurses in the Philippines is very, very poor. A lot is done on the word of the Philippines regulatory authorities.

‘They rely on stamped documents as proof of proper qualifications. This is why police can’t be certain that Chua’s qualifications are genuine.’

Another said: ‘We can’t be certain that the Philippines’ Professional Regulation Commission has exercised due diligence with regard to the NHS. Once you have a PRC stamp, you are more or less guaranteed a job in the UK.’

Read more: Victorino Chua's nurse qualification bought by Daily Mail reporter for £43 | Daily Mail Online
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**dreamur** · May 19th, 2015 07:55 PM

Shame shame. I hope the universities are not in cahoots with the forgers.

**Monseratto** · May 19th, 2015 08:05 PM

Yung University of Recto matagal na iyan. Panahon pa ni Marcos, nandiyan na iyan. Kahit mga thesis meron. Just be sure na tama yung grammar...hehehe.

**Monseratto** · May 19th, 2015 08:26 PM

**chua_riwap** · May 19th, 2015 08:50 PM

Baka di na kumuha ng nurses ang UK sa atin.......

**chua_riwap** · May 19th, 2015 08:55 PM

Yung PRC card ni stephen, pwede na i-verify sa PRC website yan ah, via the reg no printed on the card.

Pag n/a, peke......

**Juan Martinez** · May 19th, 2015 09:05 PM

Mr. Wright, not all Filipino nurses resorted to these shenanigans, most of them, if not all, except that sicko, toiled in college, passed government examinations, spent sizeable sums, had to endure family separation for long, just to work in your country. In the same way that we did not generalize Britons as child molesters or traffickers when a number of them were arrested in 2014 under Operation Endeavour victimizing Filipino children. Most Filipinos have this indomitable spirit too to succeed as exemplified by Cynthia Alcantara-Barker, a native of San Pablo City, Laguna, who was elected town councilor of Elstree and Borehamwood, England.