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Coroner calls for more nursing care for immobile patients
Coroner calls for more nursing care for immobile patients after death of 52-year-old Norwich woman
By DAVID BALE
Thursday, January 10, 2013
11:51 AM
A coroner called for more nursing care and monitoring of restricted mobility patients after hearing how a 52-year-old Norwich woman died from infected pressure sores on her body.
Annette Dixon, from Fishergate, had been diagnosed with a spinal cord tumour in 2007, which was inoperable and had left her immobile and reliant on a mobility scooter to get about.
She was able to wash and dress herself but did not receive any nursing care, although two carers from an agency came to see every day for about 30 minutes to chat and help her move from her wheelchair.
She was also irregularly seeing a neurologist and a rehabilitation specialist.
For All I Care with Carers Gloucestershire chief executive Tim Poole
“I’ve come to realise that I must consider my own needs but it’s not always that easy
“IF you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” So said Dr Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer and scientist. All things being equal, I prefer the more traditional Mrs Beeton approach – sourcing the ingredients is marginally more straightforward.
And what about creating the New Year? Is there an official cut-off point for desisting in wishing others a happy one? It can be tricky – colleagues arrive back at work on different dates, some acquaintances you don’t necessarily see within the first few days or even weeks of January.
The other thing about New Year is that it’s difficult to decide if everything changes or nothing really changes at all – the world looks the same but often feels very different.
Great grandmother, 100, died ‘because of carers’ poor English’
A 100-year-old woman died from a fractured skull after falling from a sling because there was a “language barrier” with her foreign nurses, an inquest heard.
By Hayley Dixon
3:51PM GMT 09 Jan 2013
Great-grandmother May Lavinia Ward was “full of life” until she fell a metre and a half from a bucket sling as she was moved from a chair to a bed, fracturing her skull, and hip and breaking her knee.
Carers Shasha Wei, from China, and Rumyana Ivanova, from Bulgaria, put the bloodied dementia patient back to bed for forty minutes after she had jerked forward onto the floor when one of them let her go.
Her agitation may have been caused because she couldn’t understand them, Hertfordshire Coroners Court heard today.
They had even changed her clothes but eventually a nurse at Meppershall Care Home, Bedfordshire, was informed and paramedics rushed to the scene to find Mrs Ward, who had a broken leg and swollen eye, vomiting dark blood.
