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"My husband's stay at Beach Hill"

About: Primary and community services / Beech Hill rehabilitation centre

(as a relative),

My husband passed away in Beachill after a stroke, he was transferred from the Hallamshire hospital at the end of May & then 2 days later he had a fall. I was telephoned to say he had fallen and was ok.

He passed away suddenly a couple of days later.  He had been dead over an hour when they rang to tell me. When I went to see him they told me they had got him down as being single, we have been married over 20 years.

A few days later I went to the home to ask some questions that didn't make sense. I asked about his fall and they had no record of it, later they said he had fallen at 10. 30 which could not have happened as I was there taking clean clothes I waved to him though a window at 10. 45.

I later received a letter telling me he had died of a cardiac arrest. I rang to ask why they was telling me this as the coroner had not made his findings known I was then given a medical lesson as to what cardiac arrest meant ( just what I needed.

I was later told by the coroner that his death was caused by sepsis caused by a chest infection. There are other things which I will not go in to but over all I am left with questions unanswered. I feel as if I was lied to and patronised even rereading the letter that was sent I see they couldn't even get the dates rights that my husband was in there.

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Response from Deborah Hopkinson, Patient Experience Co-ordinator, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3 years ago
Deborah Hopkinson
Patient Experience Co-ordinator,
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Submitted on 23/09/2020 at 11:07
Published on Care Opinion at 11:27


I am so sorry to hear of your account of what has happened to your husband. On behalf of the Trust, I wish to express our sincere condolences for your loss and our apologies for matters that have gone wrong and for the distress that this has caused.

As you have unanswered questions and have raised issues in your post, I would encourage you to raise these formally through the Trust's complaint handling process. You can do this by speaking to a member of our Patient and Advice Liaison Service (PALS) on telephone number 0114 271 2400 or by emailing PALS at sth.pals@nhs.net. Once we have more details from you we will be able to carry out an investigation and then respond to you formally.

Kind regards

Yours sincerely

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