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83 Year Old Wrong Patient Delivered To The Right Address.
Fury as hospital staff take discharged 83-year-old patient on morphine to the WRONG house 40 miles from where she lived, let themselves in from a key safe and put her to bed - where the homeowner's shocked relatives found her the next morning
An elderly woman was discharged from hospital on morphine, taken to the wrong house and mistakenly put to bed there by ambulance staff in Skegness.
Joyce Wright, 83, was wrongly allowed to leave Pilgrim Hospital in Boston and dropped at a house owned by another patient 40 miles from her home in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday.
Staff used a key safe at the house to enter, before taking Mrs Wright up to the bedroom. The homeowner, another patient, was supposed to have been discharged.
Her son Andy, 55, said he was not informed his mother had been sent home, and instead learned of the mistake when the other patient's shocked relatives found Mrs Wright in bed the next day.
Ambulance staff then went to the house on Wednesday morning where they found Mrs Wright still in the bedroom, and took her back to hospital.
Mr Wright said he was 'very, very angry' when he found out about the 'epic error' and believed the incident was 'a result of the pressures that everybody is under'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12547357/Hospital-discharges-elderly-patient-83-wrong-house-40-miles-lives-shocking-mix-up.html
An elderly woman was discharged from hospital on morphine, taken to the wrong house and mistakenly put to bed there by ambulance staff in Skegness.
Joyce Wright, 83, was wrongly allowed to leave Pilgrim Hospital in Boston and dropped at a house owned by another patient 40 miles from her home in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday.
Staff used a key safe at the house to enter, before taking Mrs Wright up to the bedroom. The homeowner, another patient, was supposed to have been discharged.
Her son Andy, 55, said he was not informed his mother had been sent home, and instead learned of the mistake when the other patient's shocked relatives found Mrs Wright in bed the next day.
Ambulance staff then went to the house on Wednesday morning where they found Mrs Wright still in the bedroom, and took her back to hospital.
Mr Wright said he was 'very, very angry' when he found out about the 'epic error' and believed the incident was 'a result of the pressures that everybody is under'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12547357/Hospital-discharges-elderly-patient-83-wrong-house-40-miles-lives-shocking-mix-up.html
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