Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Nurse Ann King ignored the cries of ?help me? and stopped a healthcare assistant going to check on the desperate patient, telling him ?sit down - she's fine?, it is said.
By the time help reached the woman her face had turned purple and she it was too late to resuscitate her. She died of a heart attack.
The accusations are the latest in a string of shocking revelations about the standards of care at the hospital, where up to 1,200 patients died needlessly
During a hearing at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) it was also alleged that Mrs King failed to recognise that 66-year-old Gillian Astbury, who subsequently died, was diabetic.
The pensioner, from Hednesford, Staffordshire, had been at the hospital receiving treatment for a minor fall but died after nurses failed to give her insulin.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ed-pleas-of-dying-patient-tribunal-hears.html
By the time help reached the woman her face had turned purple and she it was too late to resuscitate her. She died of a heart attack.
The accusations are the latest in a string of shocking revelations about the standards of care at the hospital, where up to 1,200 patients died needlessly
During a hearing at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) it was also alleged that Mrs King failed to recognise that 66-year-old Gillian Astbury, who subsequently died, was diabetic.
The pensioner, from Hednesford, Staffordshire, had been at the hospital receiving treatment for a minor fall but died after nurses failed to give her insulin.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ed-pleas-of-dying-patient-tribunal-hears.html