Just horrendous 😔
Her husband John said she fell after feeling dizzy when she got out of bed to go to the toilet by herself, having received no response to her buzzer.
She had an operation two days later to repair the fracture, after which Mr Shields said the hospital called to say it had been a success but that ‘unfortunately they dropped her off the operating [table] after the surgery’.A spokesman for North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust said an investigation is under way : ‘She had a great big bump on the back of her head and she just deteriorated, and then she just passed away, just died. I’m shocked, I’m really shocked.
‘The outcome of the investigation will also determine any further action that we will need to take. We remain in regular contact with the patient’s family.’