Families of the victims of medical mistakes, poor care and bad management at 14 scandal-hit hospital trusts have spoken of their ?heartbreak? at the ?nightmare? experiences of their loved ones.
A total of 11 of the trusts with the worst mortality rates in England have been placed in ?special measures? and teams of experts sent in to turn them around.
Some of the victims? families are only now discovering how badly they were let down.
Liz Degnen was one of the main campaigners to highlight problems at Tameside Hospital in Greater Manchester after her mother?s death.
Betty Dunn was admitted to the hospital in January 2009 with the winter vomiting bug ? and was given penicillin signed off by seven different staff even though her family told the hospital she was allergic to it.
Her daughter told Sky News: ?As a result she ended up with a heart attack, renal failure, septicaemia, pneumonia, and the care there initially at the beginning was appalling.
?The family was outraged and stayed with her, round her bedside, for the next 24 hours, every single day for six weeks until she died.
?She ended up dying with Clostridium difficile, a hospital superbug.?
Emma Stones, 12, who had cerebral palsy, died of blood poisoning at the hospital. Her father said doctors failed to run tests and nurses did not monitor her.
An independent specialist told the inquest into her death that she could have been saved.
?She said in her experience, if medical intervention would have happened at an earlier stage, she said Emma would have probably survived,? said Michael Stones.
?And this was verified by the coroner in his verdict. So we are put in a situation where we?ll never know because of the absolute, disgraceful behaviour of that hospital towards my daughter. An animal gets treated better,? he added.
Rebecca Asplin?s mother Ann was discharged from Lincoln Hospital NHS Trust even though she had pneumonia. She died at home of malnutrition.
Her daughter told Sky News: ?They wouldn?t talk to us about her weight loss. There was nobody there, we never saw one doctor the whole time we were visiting,? she said.
?It breaks my heart. There was no need for her to suffer like that for a blocked bowel. Food and fluid everybody needs to survive.?
Fred Harris was ?shunted about like a suitcase? at Basildon University Hospital, according to his granddaughter Sharon Walsh. He was moved nine times in 12 days, she said.
?It was as if he was just part of the furniture. He was just always there. So no-one seemed to acknowledge or take any notice, and they certainly didn?t take accountability of his care,? added his granddaughter Tracy Webster.
Lisa Evans, whose mother Marguerita was at Tameside, described the conditions of the hospital.
She told Sky News: ?There were people on trolleys in the corridors, they had no cubicles. It was very, very warm. I was concerned because there were people, old people, left on their own.
?They don?t have time to put her on the toilet. I said to them, ?you?re not putting an incontinence nappy on my mum. She came in here being able to use the toilet and you are not taking my mum?s dignity away from her?.?
Kerry Ann Clarke said she went to Basildon and ?begged? the hospital to test her for cervical cancer because there was a family history of it and she had every symptom, but was ?completely ignored?.
?No-one took any notice of me. I was basically made to feel like a nuisance,? she told Sky News.
?I collapsed in the toilet, haemorrhaging severely. A nurse insisted that a doctor come and see me. They tried to do an internal examination, and the tumour by now had started to make its way out of me.
?They touched it, it erupted, and it was panic stations. I was rushed down for a biopsy and told the next morning that I had inoperable, stage 3b cancer.
?It basically robbed me of my life, and I don?t think that?s right.?
Article source: http://news.sky.com/story/1116604
Source: http://www.dee1063.com/nhs-crisis-the-victims-and-families-let-down/
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