A Nottinghamshire hospital has apologised to a woman's family after staff missed opportunities to treat her before her death. Tracey South, 51, died in King’s Mill Hospital on May 9, 2022 after being admitted on March 22, 2022 due to her carer’s concerns that she seemed weaker than normal and had fallen out of her wheelchair.
Miss South had spent her life in a wheelchair, due to having spina bifida, a type of neural tube defect. She remained in a hospital ward until April 26, 2022 suffering from a kidney injury, after which she was transferred to an ‘outlier’ ward due to bed pressure and then discharged home on May 3, 2022.
An inquest into her death was held on April 19 at Nottingham Council House. It heard that the following day after she had been discharged from hospital, she was an emergency readmission into King’s Mill Hospital and was too unwell to be saved. She died on May 9, 2022 after being placed on end-of-life care.
