Hospital staff put a vulnerable pensioner with severe dementia in a taxi and sent her home wearing a flimsy hospital gown.
Retired IT expert Terry Dawson, 80, says he was horrified when the taxi arrived at his home carrying his 76-year-old wife Sylvia, stark naked but for a hospital gown and a flimsy cotton shawl.
The distressed grandmother was clutching a carrier bag containing her clothes, handed to her by staff at the A&E Department of Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary.
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