Hospital to apologise for care failures
In one of the worst cases of mistreatment, an 84-year-old man starved to death at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Worcestershire, in June 2009.
Some patients treated by the Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospital Trust were left thirsty, with drinks left out of reach, while others were left to sit in their own excrement.
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Hide AdIn another instance, an elderly woman went unwashed for 11 weeks and later died, and a man who was unable to feed himself, would simply have his uneaten food taken away by the nurses, according to his daughter.
There were further claims from the families of a man whose ribs were broken while hospital staff attempted to lift him, and a great-grandmother whose hip fracture went undetected by doctors.