Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In his final summing up to the public inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust, the biggest scandal in NHS history whose report is due to be published next week, the chairman, Robert Francis, quoted the case of a diabetic patient who died because nurses forgot to give her insulin.
A police investigation was launched into the act of gross negligence in 2007 but no prosecution was ever brought. A manslaughter investigation by the Health and Safety Executive is pending and two nurses involved in her care are awaiting disciplinary hearings before the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Ron Street, 79, the “close friend, soulmate and carer” of Gillian Astbury, who was 66 when she died, spoke for the families of hundreds of other patients today when he said he wanted people held accountable for her death.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ssons-of-fatal-error-in-nhs-care-8468873.html
Don't quite understand how she died of hypoglaecemia if she wasn't being given insulin?
A police investigation was launched into the act of gross negligence in 2007 but no prosecution was ever brought. A manslaughter investigation by the Health and Safety Executive is pending and two nurses involved in her care are awaiting disciplinary hearings before the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Ron Street, 79, the “close friend, soulmate and carer” of Gillian Astbury, who was 66 when she died, spoke for the families of hundreds of other patients today when he said he wanted people held accountable for her death.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ssons-of-fatal-error-in-nhs-care-8468873.html
Don't quite understand how she died of hypoglaecemia if she wasn't being given insulin?
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