A nurse is facing being struck off the register for allegedly printing fake prescriptions for a class A drug.

Mary Lorna Gibson was accused of fraud and dishonesty while working as a nurse at Central Surgery, Surbiton, between 2009 and 2010.

She was charged with issuing false prescriptions for the strong pain-relief drug Oxycodone, which is used in cancer care.

It is illegal to be in possession of it without a prescription in the UK.

She was also charged with making two fraudulent entries in patients’ records between February 11, 2009, and November 22,2010.

Ms Gibson managed the nursing team at Central Surgery. She was in charge of teaching nurses studying to become specialists.

She has not worked at Central Surgery since then.

Her case will be heard between June 19-21 at Aldwych.

- The original version of this article said wrongly that Ms Gibson had received a caution for fraud by abuse of position on December 14, 2010, based on information from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

However the NMC have asked us to make clear it uploaded the wrong information to the charge. Ms Gibson never received a police caution.