A misconduct hearing is under way to examine claims that nurse Pauline Cafferkey allowed an incorrect temperature to be taken during an Ebola screening as she returned to the UK from Africa.

The nurse, who contracted the virus while working in Sierra Leone in 2014, is alleged to have misled medical staff during a screening at Heathrow after failing to disclose she had taken paracetamol.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council, which has been investigating Ms Cafferkey's conduct, alleges she "allowed an incorrect temperature to be recorded" and "intended to conceal" a temperature higher than 38C on December 29, 2014.

On Tuesday, she faced a panel of the conduct and competence committee at the NMC in George Street, Edinburgh.

The hearing, which is expected to last two days, will consider whether her fitness to practice as a nurse has been impaired due to misconduct.

Ms Cafferkey, originally from Fife, travelled to the west African country at the height of the Ebola crisis in 2014.

She returned to London and then travelled on to Scotland before being diagnosed.

After initially making a recovery, she was readmitted to hospital twice after suffering complications linked to the disease, and at one stage fell critically ill before making a full recovery in November last year.