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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Serious concerns have been raised about the care people with diabetes receive when admitted to hospitals in Wales.
A family has spoken of the need for widespread improvements and staff training in the NHS following the death of diabetic father of five David Joseph.
A worrying audit has also revealed almost a third of diabetic patients in Wales had experienced at least one medication error while in hospital.
Mr Joseph, 80, suffered a hypoglycaemic attack after he was admitted to Bronglais Hospital, in Aberystwyth in December 2008 with an infection.
Staff had failed to regularly monitor his blood sugar levels, which fell to just 1.3. He subsequently suffered a respiratory and cardiac arrest. Mr Joseph was later transferred to a nursing home where he died in April 2009 at the age of 81.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...th-of-diabetic-father-of-five-91466-31136112/
A family has spoken of the need for widespread improvements and staff training in the NHS following the death of diabetic father of five David Joseph.
A worrying audit has also revealed almost a third of diabetic patients in Wales had experienced at least one medication error while in hospital.
Mr Joseph, 80, suffered a hypoglycaemic attack after he was admitted to Bronglais Hospital, in Aberystwyth in December 2008 with an infection.
Staff had failed to regularly monitor his blood sugar levels, which fell to just 1.3. He subsequently suffered a respiratory and cardiac arrest. Mr Joseph was later transferred to a nursing home where he died in April 2009 at the age of 81.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...th-of-diabetic-father-of-five-91466-31136112/