Norma Doris Sheppard · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 14 Mar 2014•Staffordshire South

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Concerns raised1

  1. Failure to ensure clear and consistent discharge instructions
    Part of recurring concern: Failure to ensure safe post-discharge arrangements for vulnerable patients and residentsPart of recurring concern: Unreliable hospital discharge processes
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Failure to ensure clear and consistent discharge instructions

Wider context from the report

“There was considerable confusion about the terms of Mrs Sheppard’s discharge from Queens Hospital to the care home on 25 March 2013. There was a written discharge letter that indicated that Mrs Sheppard should continue to receive sub cutaneous fluids at the care home and this presented considerable difficulties in finding somewhere suitable to take her. In fact when she was discharged it appears to be on an understanding that she was not going to receive sub cutaneous fluids although this was contrary to the discharge document. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Failure to ensure safe post-discharge arrangements for vulnerable patients and residents; Unreliable hospital discharge processes.

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