A woman spent £1,000 hiring private carers to go undercover and look after her dying elderly mother in an NHS hospital because nurses were not giving her the attention she needed.
Annette Townend acted out of desperation after a doctor warned family members that 82-year-old Sheila Smith would be dead within days ‘if something wasn’t done’.
The great-grandmother’s liver and kidneys were failing because she had not been eating or drinking, and overworked nurses at Bradford Royal Infirmary did not have time to spend with her.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Saved From Socialism! Undercover nurses saved my condemned mother: Daughter pays £1,000 for private carers after NHS hospital staff said she couldn't be saved
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