A nurse treated for Ebola at the Royal Free Hospital will face a misconduct panel over allegations she could have put the public at risk.

On Tuesday a disciplinary panel heard allegations that Pauline Cafferkey, 40, allowed an incorrect temperature to be recorded when she was screened at Heathrow coming back from West Africa in late 2014.

The panel heard claims the Scottish medical worker's conduct had "undermined" public trust and confidence in the nursing profession.

Ms Cafferkey, who came close to death twice after contracting Ebola working as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, has "previously unblemished record", according to her legal team.

The allegations against her were made by a lawyer for the Nursing and Midwifery Council on the first day of the hearing in Edinburgh.

Accusations that she acted dishonestly during her return to Heathrow were dropped after the panel ruled there was no reasonable prospect of them being proved.

She remains accused of allowing an incorrect temperature to be recorded during the screening process at the airport and of leaving the screening area at Heathrow without reporting her true temperature.

A high temperature is deemed to be an early sign of an infection.

In agreed evidence put before the panel, it was said that screening staff from Public Health England at the airport “were not properly prepared to receive so many travellers from at risk countries” resulting in a “busy, disorganised and even chaotic" environment.

Ms Cafferkey arrived in Glasgow late in the evening and awoke feeling "very unwell" on December 29 2014.

She was diagnosed with Ebola the same day and spent almost a month being treated in an isolation unit at the Royal Free in Hampstead.

After recovering, she had two further admissions to hospital - one with a relapse of the Ebola virus and the other with chronic meningitis.