Mark Wright, 39, was shocked when the nurse refused to listen to his concerns and started screaming abuse at him in front of other patients at Weston General Hospital, in Somerset.

He had been admitted to the hospital after suffering severe chest pains, but was left on a trolley for two hours before being moved to a general ward for tests.

The father-of-one described the conditions there as filthy and was told he would only be examined the next morning when he complained of further pains during the night.

He and six other patients wrote a letter of complaint about their poor treatment, using a form given to them by the hospital.

But the next day, the nurse confronted him about the complaint and launched into a foul-mouthed tirade as he was having his blood pressure taken.

"She said 'you've got no f****** right talking to me like that, no f****** right to be complaining'," he told the Bristol Evening Post.

"She said she was going to retire in a few days, and the complaint would affect her pension.

"It was in front of all the other patients. I was gobsmacked. It was like a Carry On Film."

Mr Wright, a transport manager from Weston-super-Mare, was admitted to hospital on March 25, suffering from agonising pains in his chest. The nurse was later told her actions amounted to gross misconduct and resigned.