An inquest has heard that a woman with dementia, who had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act, was moved between wards 10 times before her death in September 2018.
HM Coroner, Caroline Sumeray, evidenced a Serious Incident (SI) report which detailed 81-year-old Sheila Joan Martin’s journey through St Mary’s Hospital which included stays at the former Shackleton Ward – which has since closed.
Ms Martin, a retired catering assistant who suffered from several co-morbidities, was a patient in the hospital for the 2 months leading up to her passing after being admitted to the specialist dementia inpatient unit in July 2018 – and died before being discharged.
The inquest, held last Thursday, heard that Ms Martin had been suffering from a Urinary Tract Infection, along with heart disease, before contracting pneumonia and sepsis.
The coroner recorded a conclusion of natural causes.
My mum went through a similar horror stay at St Marys. Admitted with a Brocken hip after a fall .She to developed sepsis after the hip replacement op. then recovered only to develop gallstones. She was in a poor way.
She was left to feed herself and on one of my visits she was choking, i slapped her back hard and she was sick, lucky i was there. The staff wanted her out of the hospital, needed the bed? No residential home would take her as she needed nursing care. After expert intervention she was placed in to a nursing home in Bembridge. She was lucky and lived comfortably for a couple more years.
I have NEVER seen anything like St Marys. Work ethics, accountability, petty theft (in some cases) absolute shambles.