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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.
Phoenix Centre in Mile Cross rises from the flames
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Tom Bristow, Reporter Monday, December 24, 2012
12:00 PM
Children’s laughter, balloons and presents filled the hall of a Mile Cross community centre on Saturday – just seven days after it was attacked by arsonists.
The message from the Phoenix Centre as it hosted six-year-old Sade Woollard’s birthday party was clear – we have risen from the ashes.
Christmas lights, music and games replaced the ash, smoke and flames of last weekend when the centre was set alight and partially destroyed.
Sade’s mother, Charmain, said her daughter had been in tears during the week at the thought that her first big birthday party would be cancelled.
Coroner’s call for back-up telephone plans for medical centres
A coroner is to write to NHS Norfolk and Waveney to emphasise the importance of surgeries having back-up plans should their telephone systems fail.
By RICHARD WOOD Thursday, December 13, 2012
9:34 AM
Suffolk coroner Peter Dean is writing to the primary care trust after Beccles Medical Centre was left without its incoming phone line for more than 24 hours in July last year, and on the same day a 77-year-old patient from Worlingham died.
Dr Dean said that the medical centre were not at fault for the woman’s death, which was of natural causes, but said it was important that plans were in place when there were any problems at surgeries.
