By Robin KIELY
July 22 2009
A CARER at Leas Cross nursing home attempted to feed a bed-bound Alzeihmer's patient, who had lost her swallow reflex. Kathleen Corrigan had spent six years in 'comfort' at St Ita's Hospital before being transferred to Leas Cross in the autumn of 2003.
'I was told my mother was being moved there as the unit in St Ita's was closing down,' her daughter, Anne Doyle said. 'She was bedridden, but I arrived in Leas Cross to find her slumped over in a wheelchair in the dining room.
'They didn't appear to have any charts or background on her. At no time did anyone come and ask me any questions about her condition or medication. There was no proper handover.'
'I went with her in the ambulance to Beaumont where she was left on a trolley all day.
‘The doctor in Beaumont said they didn't know why she had been sent in.'
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