![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/pensioner-dies-after-being-left-coughing-up-blood-on-ae-trolley-for-24-hours/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1_Family-demand-answers-as-woman-dies-after-being-left-coughing-up-blood-on-AE-trolley-for-24-hours.jpg&description=Silvia Thomas's family is now demanding answers following the pensioner's death at Queens Medical Centre in Lenton, Nottingham, and insists "sorry is not enough" A daughter is demanding answers after her elderly mother who had dementia died when she was left on an A&E trolley for at least 24 hours. Silvia Thomas, 77, had been coughing up blood when she was left waiting on a hospital trolley at the Queens Medical Centre in Lenton, Nottingham. She was taken to hospital by ambulance at around 11am on October 30 last year where she was handed over and waited more than a day to be seen. Her daughter, Maria Laney, said "sorry is not enough" and is demanding an explanation. An early investigation by the NHS hospital has showed there was "significant staffing gaps" while Mrs Thomas, who had throat cancer, was in the facility. Maria was in Devon when she received a phone call about her mother being admitted to hospital. She says staff told her her mother would be taken to a ward "in a minute". But three hours later, at around 11.30pm, Mrs Laney received another call to say her mother had fallen from the trolley trying to go to the toilet and broke her wrist and hip. Mrs Thomas, who's from Edwalton, Nottinghamshire, was then taken to a ward, ITV News reports. "She should've been on one-to-one care, but later on I was told they were short-staffed that evening. I've got a letter saying 'I'm sorry' but that's not good enough. You don't leave somebody with Alzheimer's on a ward on their own. Sorry's not enough," Maria said today. Dr John Walsh, Deputy Medical Director at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, said: "I offer my sincere condolences to the family of Mrs Thomas and apologise for the distress caused. "At the request of the family, we have investigated their concerns and discussed the findings with them. Patient safety is our top priority and we have taken action to reduce the risk of patients falling while in our care."){kind=link}
Silvia Thomas’s family is now demanding answers following the pensioner’s death at Queens Medical Centre in Lenton, Nottingham, and insists “sorry is not enough”
A daughter is demanding answers after her elderly mother who had dementia died when she was left on an A&E trolley for at least 24 hours.
Silvia Thomas, 77, had been coughing up blood when she was left waiting on a hospital trolley at the Queens Medical Centre in Lenton, Nottingham. She was taken to hospital by ambulance at around 11am on October 30 last year where she was handed over and waited more than a day to be seen.
Her daughter, Maria Laney, said “sorry is not enough” and is demanding an explanation. An early investigation by the NHS hospital has showed there was “significant staffing gaps” while Mrs Thomas, who had throat cancer, was in the facility.
Maria was in Devon when she received a phone call about her mother being admitted to hospital. She says staff told her her mother would be taken to a ward “in a minute”.