Following on from the previous posting, read this report from the Oldham Advertiser on an inquest held recently in Oldham. This is the Pennine Acute Trusts version of a duty of care. This is the piss poor organisation headed by the grinning pillock below. This by the way is the same PPO which recently announced the axing of 23 beds to 'save money'. What the fuck has he to be proud of? What the fuck has he got to smile about? What fucking use is he and the rest of the quangocracy as they sit vacuously in their fancy offices, filling their boots with our money?
Apology over 'abandoned' patient's death
Mike Keegan Oldham
Advertiser
June 08, 2010
Health chiefs have
apologised and paid a five-figure
compensation sum to the family of a man who was abandoned at a
hospital after suffering fatal head injuries.Arnold Siddall, 47, from Failsworth, was taken to casualty after he fractured his skull during a row outside a bar. But an inquest heard that rather than receiving the treatment that could have saved his life, he was left to wander around the grounds of the Royal Oldham Hospital for 12 hours before eventually being picked up by police. He suffered a fit in the back of a van. He was taken back to the hospital but died two days later.
As the inquest into Mr Siddall’s death opened at Oldham County Court, the M.E.N. discovered bosses from Pennine Acute Trust apologised to Mr Siddall’s family and paid them compensation after they threatened legal action.
Mr Siddall, a welder, was pushed over and hit his head on the pavement after going to complain about noise at The Lock bar in Failsworth in 2007.
Paramedics took him to the hospital where he was seen by ambulance triage nurse Joanne Pendleton.
She told the inquest that she did not record that Mr Siddall had suffered a head injury on medical records, only that he seemed intoxicated.
Mr Siddall, who had been drinking earlier that evening, was marked as a priority 3 patient – to be seen within an hour.
But he told staff he wanted to go home and despite falling back into a wheelchair he had been put in, was able to walk out. Security staff told the inquest Mr Siddall was spotted at various points in the hospital grounds until 4.20 that afternoon.
Guards approached Mr Siddall, who had two brothers and four sisters, but thought he was drunk. One saw him fall to the ground with his head in his hands and another time noticed he had vomited but doctors were not told.
Pennine Acute Trust declined to comment on the payout.Twelve hours wandering the hospital grounds? And nobody noticed apart from sundry 'security guards' who spent the day spotting Mr Siddall all around the hospital but raised no alarm. He must also have been spotted by several medical personnel. Did anyone care? Did anyone obtain help for the unfortunate man? Why did it take the police 12 hours to pick him up?
Bosses from PAT 'apologised and paid compensation after being threatened with legal action. Is this what they consider to be 'A Duty Of Care?' Pennine Acute Trust declined to comment on the payout.. I bet they fucking did. Not a great deal they can say is there?
The grinning pillock Jesky seen below is one of those 'bosses.' Do we want an utter twat like him in charge of a supposedly caring organisation? Do we want to give him £100,000 of our money to preside over fuck-ups like this?
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