Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust apologises over elderly patient who died after falling off trolley in Maidstone Hospital
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Updated: 12:38, 15 February 2021
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Foundation Trust has apologised after staff shortages led to the death of an elderly patient who fell off a hospital trolley.
Katherine Hogan, 93, had been left overnight on a trolley in a clinical decision unit at Maidstone Hospital because of staff shortages.
Staff shortages led to an elderly patient being left on a trolley overnight
She fell off the trolley and suffered head injuries that led to her death 15 days later on August 31, 2019.
An inquest that concluded last July determined that Mrs Hogan had "sustained a severe head injury and major haemorrhage due to a high impact fall from a trolley".