Nursing Home Death

A nursing home has been fined £70,000 after an elderly lady suffocated when she became trapped between her mattress and bed rails.

The lady’s upper body had slid down to the floor between the bed mattresses and bed rails which had been installed to protect her from falling out of bed. At the trial it was revealed that the same lady had previously been trapped in the same way three weeks earlier but nothing had been done to arrange alternative bedding.