Widow Died After Care Staff Left Her For 14 Hours With Broken Hip (UK)

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

09th July 2009

An elderly widow died after she broke her hip and was left in agony without medical attention for 14 hours at a private nursing home.

When Winifred Mitchell was eventually taken to hospital with an 'obvious' fracture, she contracted pneumonia and died eight days later, an inquest heard.

A pathologist said the broken hip contributed to her death.

Mrs Mitchell, 87, had gone to stay at the residential home only to allow her carer daughter to go on holiday.

She was 'screaming out in pain' and pressing her alarm buzzer throughout the night after falling from a wheelchair which had been left without its brakes on, the Sheffield coroner was told.

Abridged

SOURCE: Mail on Sunday - London,UK

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