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 […]
Positive Pressure Sore Outcomes at NHS Trust Hospital
Pressure Sore Treatment Lacked Urgency at St Peter’s Hospital
An inquest into the untimely death of an elderly grandmother at St. Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey has heard from a senior physician at another hospital that the treatment plan which may have prevented her death “lacked urgency”. The 87 year old lady died on 1st July last year (2016) from sepsis which was due to an untreated pressure sore on […]