Bupa given big fine for care home fatality
A Bupa care home has been fined £100,000 after an immobile elderly resident died after falling out of a hoist while being lifted out of her bed.
Irene Evans, 91, was a resident at the Parklands Court Nursing Home in Bloxwich, Walsall when the incident took place on 31 January 2007. She suffered dementia and was unable to move without assistance. On the day of the incident two carers were trying to move her from her bed to a chair.
Three weeks earlier the care home had purchased a new hoist to lift Mrs Evans as the previous hoist was uncomfortable and left her with sores. The device places a sling underneath the patient, which is attached by means of a series of hooks, loops and clips to the mechanically-operated hoist.€
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Bupa given big fine for care home fatality
A Bupa care home has been fined £100,000 after an immobile elderly resident died after falling out of a hoist while being lifted out of her bed.
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