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She also witnessed an elderly man naked from the waist down being changed in a day lounge in front of other residents. Other staff said the home, which closed in 2006, lacked basic equipment, with workers having to supply their own gloves and sanitiser, and staff would sleep on duty. The inquest heard how some care staff falsified records to show residents had been given food and drink and bathed. Maria Rogers, a registered mental nurse, said she was unhappy with the quality of care she saw at Brithdir, blaming “lazy” staff. “I recall on one occasion four of the larger male residents were smelling from bad body odours. It was quite clear they had not been bathed,” she said in a written statement.
Care worker drew moustache on woman s face with permanent marker
Witnesses told an inquest patients were humiliated and mistreated at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar with the premises also said to be lacking basic equipment
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Staff at a scandal-hit nursing home have told an inquest how elderly residents were humiliated and suffered poor standards of care.
Seven residents who lived at Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar died between 2003 and 2005. Some suffered from dehydration, malnourishment, and pressure sores.
An inquest in Newport is hearing evidence on the deaths of Stanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Evelyn Jones, 87, Edith Evans, 85, and William Hickman, 71.