Euthanasia Trial Nurse Is Caring, Says Doctor; `I Always Regarded Her Highly'

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Byline: RON QUENBY

AN NHS nurse alleged to have tried to kill off elderly patients in a ruthless efficiency drive was yesterday described as ``professional and caring'' by the Clinical Director of Medicine at the hospital where she worked.

Dr Maxwell Winson, who has been Leighton Hospital in Crewe for more than 25 years, told Chester Crown Court that Barbara Salisbury ``did not suffer fools gladly'' and was forthright at times,but that did not detract from her being a good nurse.

Salisbury,47,of Leeswood, North Wales,but originally from Liverpool,denies attempting to murder four patients in 1999 and 2002,either by pumping them full of potentially lethal …