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Dear Tom, Sorry You Died 29/8/09

posted on 16 September 2009 | posted in Media Coverage/T.Milner


Read here - The Sun article by Emma Morton - 29/8/09

OUR COMMENTS: Can we state clearly that HILARY SCHOLEFIELD, Chief Nurse at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital Trust omitted to say that the Healthcare Commission Report stated 'THE AMOUNT IN THE SYRINGE DRIVER 10MGS. WAS LOW IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES' - , and that the Healthcare Commission had 'MADE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE TRUST TO IMPLEMENT IN THE FUTURE'!

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By EMMA MORTON

Published: 29 Aug 2009 - Transcript

THE NHS has written to a DEAD MAN to apologise for leaving him to die in agony - 3½ YEARS AGO.
Tom Milner, 76, was not given his prescribed pain-relieving morphine for terminal leukaemia in his last two days, his family say.

He was left writhing in agony and lay in his own urine and blood at The NHS Palliative Care Ward at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital.

His daughter Janet Brooks wrote and signed a letter to the National Patients Safety Agency outlining her concerns about his treatment. Janet, 54, said: "They responded with 'Dear Tom'. It's an example of the careless and shambolic attitude by the NHS towards my father and our family.

"We wanted his last days to be as peaceful and dignified as possible but at one point he was twisting and turning, laying in blood and urine. There was no compassion."

Two MPs wrote to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for answers, but to no avail.

Hilary Scholefield, the Trust's Chief Nurse, said a review found that staff had treated electrician Tom "appropriately and professionally".

Hilary Scholefield, Chief Nurse, Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust




















 

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