Answers wanted after man discharged from hospital without care package dies at home
An 84-year-old man died days after being discharged home from hospital without a care package being activated, a coroner was told.
Samuel Joseph Brookes, of Highley Park Homes, in Netherton, near Highley, Bridgnorth, was found dead on April 22 when a relative took round a supply of frozen meals that a carer would have cooked for him.
Mr Brookes, a widower, had been discharged back home from Russells Hall Hospital, in Dudley, on April 8 this year. Dudley-born, he had been in hospital after a fall and a ‘long lie’ at home. His death was caused by a combination of heart disease and pneumonia contributed to by liver disease and Parkinson’s disease.
Described as being ‘in and out of hospital’, previously he had been visited four times a day by carers from a company called Outcome Care and Support to help him live an independent life.
An inquest report is being prepared for Shropshire senior coroner John Ellery, who called a pre-inquest review on Thursday to bring representatives of the hospital and the care company together to get to the nub of the issues.
