Stafford Hospital nurse 'refused to help lift patient' 5 March 2013 Last updated at 14:09 A senior nurse at Stafford Hospital refused to help lift a seriously ill elderly patient from a wheelchair on to a bed, a tribunal has heard. The hearing was told sister Tracy White also called the woman, known as Patient B, "a naughty little monkey" for not taking her medication. The patient died a day after being admitted to A&E in May 2007. Ms White and another nurse, Sharon Turner, face misconduct charges dating back to 2003, which they deny. Former A&E staff nurse Helene Donnelly told the Nursing and Midwifery Council tribunal at the Old Bailey that Tracy White had refused to lift the patient from a wheelchair. She accused Ms White of saying: "I'm not lifting her, she is just constipated and she hasn't taken her Lactulose [laxative], the naughty little monkey." Nurse Donnelly claimed that Ms White then told a junior doctor to discharge Patient B because she was going to "breach waiting time targets." Patient B was taken to a nursing home but was readmitted the next day, when she died of a pulmonary oedema. Racist jokes Helene Donnelly said Tracy White was not to blame for the patient's death but she said the woman had been given "a very uncared-for and undignified last 24 hours." "I feel this is because of the pressure placed on nurses and junior doctors by the nurse in charge at the time, who was sister White," she told the tribunal. Miss Donnelly also told the hearing that sister Turner swore near patients and made racist comments about Asian members of staff. She said one Asian junior doctor looked shocked after Ms Turner asked him: "What have you got in your rucksack, doctor? Is it a bomb? The barrister for Ms Turner and Ms White, James Townsend, suggested that Helene Donnelly's memories of the incidents were wrong. The two senior sisters are accused of falsifying hospital data and instructing others to do the same, making inappropriate comments about patients and staff, and transferring patients before they had been properly assessed. The pair both deny the allegations, which if upheld could lead to them being struck off.