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06
Sep
Developers of Bedsore Detecting SEM Scanner Win 2018 Innovative Technology Award

Recently nurses at the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation have had a good reason to celebrate. In the last 19 months there have been no reports of patients suffering from severe pressure sores. In the department at the hospital which is responsible for the care of elderly and frail patients over the last 584 day no patient has experienced the pain and suffering caused by severe grade 3 or 4 hospital-acquired ulcers.

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30
Aug
The CQC Puts Dorset Care Home in Special Measures

Recently nurses at the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation have had a good reason to celebrate. In the last 19 months there have been no reports of patients suffering from severe pressure sores. In the department at the hospital which is responsible for the care of elderly and frail patients over the last 584 day no patient has experienced the pain and suffering caused by severe grade 3 or 4 hospital-acquired ulcers.

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23
Aug
Revolving Doors Favour Sacked NHS Bosses After Bed Sore Debacle

Recently nurses at the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation have had a good reason to celebrate. In the last 19 months there have been no reports of patients suffering from severe pressure sores. In the department at the hospital which is responsible for the care of elderly and frail patients over the last 584 day no patient has experienced the pain and suffering caused by severe grade 3 or 4 hospital-acquired ulcers.

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12
Dec
Could the SEM Scanner Reduce Pressure Sore Incidence to Zero?

The use of the SEM scanner to help identify pressure sores in people most at risk has been available for use for some time now in Britain and its use was the subject of an earlier blog on this site this year. The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has just been awarded Patient Safety Award […]

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12
Sep
Did Pressure Sores Contribute to a Patient’s Death in a Hackney Hospital?

What seems to be substandard care at an East London hospital may have resulted in an elderly patient’s untimely death as well as him being wrongly marked for cremation despite his family’s express wishes for burial. 88 year old Barsey Spencer, a migrant from Jamaica in the 1950s, died in the Royal London Hospital and […]

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12
Sep
Too Late For Mrs Forrester – The Diary of a Welsh Pressure Sore Tragedy

An inquest into the death of a Rhos-on-Sea, Conwy, care home resident due to complications from pressure sore sepsis has concluded that the death was due to negligence at the home. Halewood Home is now closed, but the death last year of 80 year old Mrs. Forrester prompted concerns for the other residents at the […]

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12
Jul
Pressure Sores More Common Because of NHS Staffing Cuts

A recent news article revealed that NHS nurses are leaving the profession in larger numbers than ever before. Amongst other things this appears to be affecting the number of patients who develop potentially dangerous pressure sores. One of the reasons for this is that the nursing shortages are so critical that patients who are incapacitated […]

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12
May
Bed Sores Ruin a British Couple’s Caribbean Cruise

Bed Sores Claim | Bed Sores Compensation Recently, a British father was left in a dirty hospital on the brink of death following a Caribbean cruise and he claims he was forced to suffer from bed sores (also called pressure sores or pressure ulcers) as he was tied to his bed. Cruises through the Caribbean […]

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12
May
Pressure Sores are More of a Risk for Dementia Patients

Patients that have dementia face health risks that many other people with chronic illnesses do not. One of the problems that dementia sufferers face which is potentially preventable is the development of pressure sores. These are also commonly known as bed sores or pressure ulcers and as the name suggests are caused when people lie […]

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12
Apr
Payments to Compensate for Bed Sore Neglect Have Doubled in Five Years

Florence Nightingale once said that bed sores were the result of poor nursing and neglect. That was over 150 years ago. It seems that her comment has not been heeded by everyone who cares for people who are mostly bed-ridden. 706 bed sore victims have been awarded over 16 million pounds in compensation since 2003 […]

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