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Article: WHO CARES? Just how the system works.(News)
- Article from:
- Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2008
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Byline: MARIE LEVY
GRACE ALLENBY, 88, only got the nursing care she needed two days before she died but her death raised a number of questions about the healthcare service.
The self-funding 88-year-old appears to have slipped through the system - she had no social worker, her wounds were not dressed frequently by community nurses and she was denied the nursing care she needed until it was too late.
Erik Scollay, of Middlesbrough social services, Phil Dyson, Middlesbrough Council's head of older people and physical disability services, and Paul ...