A Kildare woman, who was classified as being a high-risk patient for falls, suffered a fatal head injury as a result of a fall while she was unattended in a smoking area of a hospital, an inquest had heard.
Jennifer Foy, a 54-year-old mother of one from Pluckerstown, Kilmeague, Co Kildare, suffered the fall as Naas General Hospital but died at Beaumont Hospital days later on July 3, 2020.
An inquest into her death on Thursday heard Ms Foy had been transferred to Beaumont for surgery after suffering a blood clot in her head from a fall 11 days earlier while she was a patient at Naas General Hospital.
