Apology to dead man
THE NHS in England has apologised after writing to a dead man to say sorry for leaving him to die in agony three-and-a-half-years after he died.
Tom Milner, 76, was not given his prescribed pain-relieving morphine for terminal leukaemia in his last two days, and lay in agony at the NHS Palliative Care Ward at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital, his family say.
The case was highlighted earlier this week by the Patients Association in a report on the treatment of the elderly by NHS nurses.
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