£233k victory | NHS trust's failure to adjust role forced disabled worker to resign

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A disabled NHS employee was left with no option but to quit her job after being allocated a role she could not perform due to her health, a tribunal heard.

Mrs Kelly Ruddock (the claimant), a Senior Clinical Support Administrator at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (the respondent) succeeded with claims of discrimination and unfair dismissal against the trust, being awarded more than £233,000 in compensation as a result.

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