A FANTASIST nurse who said he worked for the fictional hospital from the TV show ER is set to find out whether he will be struck off over his “inappropriate” conduct in a Saltcoats nursing home.

Greig Ferguson is facing fresh allegations three years after lying about working at the made-up County General Hospital in Chicago where Hollywood actor George Clooney’s character Dr Doug Ross worked.

The 42-year-old was sacked from his position as a result of the lies but avoided being struck off after the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) found him to be ‘not a dishonest person’.

However next week he will go before the NMC panel again, this time following allegations over training he gave on ‘physical intervention’ to staff from Seabank Nursing Home.

He allegedly advised those he was training to strike the Adam’s apples, smack the ears, bend the thumbs and push pressure points of those in their care displaying challenging behaviour.

It is alleged these methods were ‘inappropriate’ and he was dishonest, having no qualifications or training in physical intervention himself.

The home’s patients include frail and elderly residents, some of whom have intellectual impairment and behaviour which requires physical intervention.

Ferguson, of Denny Stirlingshire, was hired by training services company H1 Healthcare to deliver a ‘train the trainer’ course on managing people with challenging behaviour to Seabank staff in August 2013.

A small group of staff from Seabank attended his course with the view of passing on their techniques to the rest of the staff at a ater date.

A previous NMC hearing was told that staff had concerns about the amount of force used, but trusted Ferguson as he “came across as a competent and confident trainer”.

Those staff then delivered he training to colleagues at Seabank, but the session was stopped by the home manager who told them they shouldn’t be using the techniques, then complained to H1 Healthcare.

Ferguson was hired as an emergency nurse at St Mary’s Treatment Centre, Portsmouth, in 2008, after claiming to have worked at the TV hospital County General.

He also claimed to have been a medic with the Royal Marines in Bosnia and the Gulf and to be a qualified doctor.

His pretence only came to light in October 2008, when a genuine doctor became suspicious, but, despite being sacked from his job, he was still not struck off.

In January 2015 the Herald first reported Ferguson had been given an 18 month interim suspension order in light of the Seabank allegations.

He will find out next week if he is to be struck off.