In today's Gazette: NHS failed my David

7:45am Thursday 21st February 2013 in News

In today's Gazette: Widow Susan Pattrick is suing Colchester General Hospital for alleged failings in its care of her husband.

David Pattrick, 69 from Marks Tey, was found dead, face down in vomit and faeces in a toilet cubicle at the hospital. He had undergone a gall blader operation two days earlier.

* An Israeli diplomat was escorted from Essex University after a student demonstration.

Alon Roth-Snir, the deputy Israeli ambassador, was invited to Wivenhoe by the Department for Government but the trip was disrupted by the protesters in what they said was an act of solidarity with Palestine.

* A businessman says banning delivery vehicles from Colchester High Street during the day will cost him £50,000 a year.

Martin Averre, of Ace Comics, says he will have to pay courier firms £20 a time for secure an early delivery slot.

* Mum-of-three Gwen Pryke has been jailed in a planning dispute.

Officers arrested Mrs Pryke for breaching planning laws by camping illegally at Brook Street, Dedham. Her husband, Asa, has just been released from jail for the same breach.

For more on these and other great stories, see today's Gazette. There is always more in the paper than there in online.

Comments(9)

Justice79 says...
8:44am Thu 21 Feb 13

So do Ace Comics get 6+ deliveries a day 365 days a year or has Mr Averre exaggerated the figures without doing the maths?

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apec96 says...
9:03am Thu 21 Feb 13

NHS Colchester General failed my partner too. Fortunately, she is still with us but the staff on Brightlingsea ward kept her NBM but nobody wrote NBM on her board so she kept getting offered food... I think a man died in similar situation where a HCA gave a NBM elderly man a tablet and he passed... The nurses also gave her no drip for 17hours without valid explanation and we too wrote to the Gazette for help.

Shame on the NHS.

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Joker50 says...
1:15pm Thu 21 Feb 13

Maybe if enough people sued it would teach the NHS a lesson, who knows it might become unsustainable and the NHS be abolished that would be good.

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wellnow says...
1:51pm Thu 21 Feb 13

An Israeli diplomat was found dead in his own vomit after reading ace comics on the university campus.surely thats not right let me read that again.

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apec96 says...
2:55pm Thu 21 Feb 13

I had to get my partner to discharge herself. There was no care at all. Every time she said she was thirsty or hungry they just kept giving her morphine, and 3 times the MG she should have been given at that. Absolute disgrace. I am NOT happy.

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Say It As It Is OK? says...
3:21pm Thu 21 Feb 13

Had Mr and Mrs Pryke claimed they were travellers neither would have been jailed. After all they were on their own land!

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Ritchie_Hicks says...
5:15pm Thu 21 Feb 13

Sir Bob wrote:
Had to move my Mother out after tehy put her on Liverpool pathway twice.
Care consisted of putting a jug of water and a plastic wrapped sandwich on a bedside table and leaving her to try to get it herself.
Went in one day and drip had come out of her arm and the bedsheets were soaked with blood.
Seems out of site is out of mind as staff are so overworked.
Just starting legal actionas internal reveiw was a whitewash
Similar story here from back in 2005 - grandfather left with an incorrectly fitted chest drain for hours. Ended up having to get an off duty nurse friend to fit it properly as nobody on the ward could. He died a few days later. Staff were far from caring.

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Town8 says...
2:37am Sat 23 Feb 13

I had similar bad experiences at Colchester General with my late father. Us and family members had to muck in and clear up the mess around him constantly. However there were plenty of 3D bar graphs/pie charts on the noticeboards proudly declaring 'all targets have been met'.

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Hamiltonandy says...
10:56pm Tue 26 Feb 13

Thanks for the comments re NHS. Very depressing but confirm letters in the Gazette.

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