By Paul Bentley PUBLISHED: 11:42 EST, 17 June 2013 | UPDATED: 18:56 EST, 17 June 2013 Nurses at the disgraced Stafford Hospital who left an elderly woman to die and then recorded that she was just sleeping have been allowed to keep their jobs. Evelyn Agbeko and Theresia Van Der Knaap escaped being struck off at a hearing yesterday despite being found guilty of serious blunders at the hospital. They will now be free to keep treating vulnerable patients after a disciplinary hearing ruled that despite their failings they still ‘have a contribution to make’ as nurses. Scandal: The panel chair said that Ms Agbeko put a patient at serious risk of harm and broke fundamental tenets of the profession and brought the profession into disrepute
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Evelyn Agbeko and Theresia Van Der Knaap found guilty of misconduct
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But the pair have been told that they will keep their jobs
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Failed to provide life support for an unresponsive 81-year-old woman
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Did not start chest compressions or summon hospital's resuscitation team
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Van Der Knaap : 'In my country, if they have died, then they have died.'
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