NHS payout for family of 100-year-old who died of dehydration
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The family of a 100-year-old great grandmother who died from dehydration while at hospital has received an undisclosed medical negligence settlement.
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Lydia Spilner was admitted to the Leicester Royal Infirmary with a chest infection in January 2012 and was temporarily put on a drip.
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However, when the drip was removed and she was transferred to an elderly care ward, her condition began to deteriorate.
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Mrs Spilner?s daughter, Nora, noticed that her mother was showing signs of dehydration, and pleaded with doctors to put her back on a drip ? but it took 10 days for them to take appropriate action. As such, Mrs Spilner died of renal failure caused by dehydration on 22 February 2012.
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University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has apologised for the ?catastrophic error? which led to Mrs Spilner?s death and has announced changes in its leadership and staffing levels.
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Her family, who have now agreed an undisclosed out-of-court settlement, have also criticised the quality of care ? describing how staff did not show basic compassion and even failed to bring a jug of water when it was requested.
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Nora added: ?I firmly believe I could have taken better care of her [at home] and she would still be alive today?.
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Baby dies at understaffed hospital over weekend
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An inquest has heard how a baby boy died at hospital following heart surgery due to a lack of doctors over a weekend.
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Dominic Bartley had been transferred to Barnet Hospital following major heart surgery which was carried out at The Royal Brompton Hospital.
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His mother, Merilyn Bartler, described how an ?air of panic? descended as nurses frantically searched for a doctor to help her five-month-old son when his condition deteriorated.
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Dominic had turned blue and stopped breathing and despite being rushed to theatre, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died the following morning. It later transpired that his lungs had been filled with fluid.
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Merilyn Bartler told the Daily Telegraph how she remembered the nurses telling her: ?There are no doctors?.
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She added: ?There was nobody to help, what do you do as a parent when your child is dying and there is nobody attending to him??
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The doctor on call at the time, Professor Anthony Costello, explained that he wasn?t aware of Dominic?s high blood pressure as crucial test results had been delayed over the weekend.
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?You don?t want a child with any risk of complication in a district general hospital at a weekend?, he added.
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The inquest will take place later this month, and The Barnet Hospital Trust has declined to comment until its conclusion.
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Inadequate systems lead to ?unsafe, undignified and inhuman? care
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Patients are suffering ?unsafe, undignified and inhuman? care due to the failure of the NHS to share information about their medical history.
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This is the concern raised by Tim Kelsey, NHS England?s national director for patients and information, and then broadcast across Twitter by the government?s new director of strategy and quality.
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Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference, Liverpool, Mr Kelsey highlighted the case of a mother who regularly has to endure waits of up to five hours during regular hospital visits for her daughter, who has learning difficulties.
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Kelsey has called for new technology to evolve the health service into the age of internet banking and online shopping, adding that its failure to share medical records creates hours of delays and also undermines patient?s experience and trust in hospitals.
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?We have a health service which doesn?t know who we are. It is unsafe, it is profoundly inconvenient. It is fundamentally an undignified, inhuman approach to customer service?.
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Plans to digitalise millions of confidential medical records so that they can be easily shared between hospitals, GPs, council social workers and nursing homes are set to be implemented by a deadline of January 2014, in line with ambitions for a totally ?paperless? NHS by 2018.
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NHS reforms threaten to be ?too little too late?
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A senior official at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has criticised the failure of the NHS to act quickly enough on key reforms, adding that the delays are putting lives at continued risk.
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The Daily Telegraph has reported that Kay Sheldon, a director at the CQC has spoken out about the failings in NHS senior management, after refusing to sign a gagging order.
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Her major criticism is that procrastination over key reforms being planned by the CQC to improve patient safety will come as ?too little too late?. She has also spoken out about ?deceit and evasion? among senior management regarding NHS failings and the errors she raised at the Mid Staffs inquiry.
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Mrs Sheldon sits on the CQC?s board as a non-executive director with responsibility for holding the NHS watchdog to account. The CQC was established to expose issues in hospitals and care homes, but has come under fire for repeatedly failing to act on warnings of serious failings in patient care and for placing gagging orders on members who try to go public with concerns.
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Photo:?Stephen Dickter
Source: http://www.axiclaim.co.uk/medical-negligence-monday-round-up-15/
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