Employment Judge Kathryn Ramsden said: “The [trust] failed – over a number of years – to take adequate action in relation to Mr Nayeck’s behaviour, including when [Ms Hamilton] was made unwell due to the stress that that caused.
The spat started after a disagreement over a patient’s care in 2018, when Mr Nayeck bluntly told Ms Hamilton “I don’t like you”, the tribunal heard.
But Ms Hamilton, who qualified in 1986, claimed the only change was that Mr Nayeck not only refused to make her tea, but the entire team.
Susan Hamilton accused her colleague of ‘bullying behaviour’ while working at St Helier Hospital in south London.
She left her role in 2019 due to stress and returned in January 2021 when she lodged a formal complaint over the hospital’s handling of her complaints.
