{"id":25935,"date":"2023-09-22T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mormonmediareviews.com\/?p=25935"},"modified":"2023-09-22T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:50:14","slug":"elderly-woman-taken-to-wrong-home-by-hospital-staff-and-left-in-strangers-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mormonmediareviews.com\/world-news\/elderly-woman-taken-to-wrong-home-by-hospital-staff-and-left-in-strangers-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman taken to wrong home by hospital staff \u2013 and left in strangers bed"},"content":{"rendered":"

An elderly woman found herself confused and alone in a stranger's bed after hospital staff took her to the wrong home.<\/p>\n

Joyce Wright, 83, had been discharged incorrectly from Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, following a hip operation and was taken to the wrong home, 40 miles away from her Sleaford home. Her accidental transit was due to a hospital slip up.<\/p>\n

Health workers had opened a key safe to be used on discharging another patient, but crossed wires led to the accidental removal and subsequent blunder which left the 83-year-old in a random home in Skegness.<\/p>\n

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Joyce's son, Andy, 55, did not even know his mum had been moved to a home which was not her own. Andy only found out the next day when relatives of the other patient found Joyce in their loved one's home.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to the BBC, Andy said: "It was dark and my mum was on pain relief, on morphine, so obviously things were a bit confusing for her. She didn\u2019t quite realise [where she was] at that particular time and obviously she was quite drowsy."<\/p>\n

He has since blasted the "absolutely shocking" mix-up, which at the time he feared could have been a lot worse. Andy feared what could happen if his mum had been given the wrong medication and was left "very, very angry", he said to The Sun.<\/p>\n

"It is unbelievable. What if they gave my mum the wrong medication? I thought patients wear wristbands so this can\u2019t happen," he said. Andy was left fuming over the "epic error", though his mum is thankfully back at the right home.<\/p>\n

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