A frail, elderly man with dementia died after falling from a trolley in a Whiston A&E waiting room.
Richard Smith, 90, was taken by ambulance to Whiston Hospital on December 26 2020 after he was found on the floor of his bedroom at the Key Healthcare-owned care home were he lived. He suffered minor cuts and was taken to A&E for a check-up and CT scan, and was placed on a trolley in a cubicle at 6.20pm.
At 6.50pm, the dad-of-three was found on the floor outside the cubicle, having fallen from the trolley, breaking his left hip.
