Hospital staff thought a 24-year-old woman was ‘overreacting’ and gave her an oxygen mask that was ‘not connected to anything’ before her death, an inquest heard. University of Manchester graduate Clarissa Street spent over an hour in a corridor while suffering from a pulmonary embolism after arriving at Royal Oldham Hospital in an ambulance lateContinue reading “Hospital Staff Thought A Woman, 24, Struggling To Breathe Was ‘Overreacting’”
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‘NHS hospital secretly sedated me and wouldn’t let me leave my bed for a week’
A dementia patient who went to the hospital after a fall has told how he was secretly sedated and prevented from getting out of bed for a week. Andy Woodhead, 69, has told his account as part of the first-ever national review of an NHS “culture of containment” where dementia patients are prevented from leaving their beds,Continue reading “‘NHS hospital secretly sedated me and wouldn’t let me leave my bed for a week’”
A Disabled Woman Is Forced Into A Nursing Home Against Her Will
Lucinda Ritchie previously lived in her own adapted bungalow in Billingshurst, West Sussex. She was admitted to hospital with pneumonia last April, but 10 months later, she was not allowed to return home. Instead, this February, she was taken to a nursing home in Uckfield – an hour from her home and family. Within twoContinue reading “A Disabled Woman Is Forced Into A Nursing Home Against Her Will”
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