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“They’re killing me.. get me out of here”: Scandal of death of a 90-year-old dementia patient due to NHS failings
I just wish we could have nursed him at home.
When dementia sufferer Robin Melville was admitted to hospital after several falls at home his family hoped he would be nursed back to health. But two weeks later the 90-year-old died after falling from his bed, which had been raised 4ft off the ground and left with the guard rail down
The grandfather suffered brain damage, a fractured skull and broken ribs in the fall before dying from pneumonia. Bosses at Portsmouth’s Hospitals’ NHS Trust dispute that Mr Melville had died because of the fall in 2009. But now, after a three-year legal fight, the hospital has apologised and paid compensation.
£10,000 charity boost from Harrogate store
A Harrogate superstore is showing a trolley load of support for the district’s growing number of unpaid carers.
Employees of Sainsbury’s store on Wetherby Road have forged close links with the Carers’ Resource – with many even becoming volunteers there – after the charity was adopted as its annual good cause for the second successive year.
And they marked partnership’s renewal by handing over £9,470 to the award-winning charity based on North Park Road – the proceeds of the store’s first year of fundraising.
Doctors to launch investigation into Liverpool Care Pathway
Doctors are to investigate whether the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway, which is supposed to alleviate suffering, is actually being used to deliberately hasten death.
11:27AM BST 24 Oct 2012
Palliative care doctors are preparing to open an investigation in concerns that the Liverpool Care Pathway is being used to deliberately hasten the death of elderly and terminally-ill patients.
The Association for Palliative Medicine, representing over 1,000 doctors working in hospices and specialist palliative care units throughout the country, is going to carry out research to see if the LCP is operating as a “euthanasia pathway”.
