Vulnerable patients were left to beg at a church door for money to get home from hospital, an investigation by a Blackpool charity has found.
Other patients have been left to walk home in their slippers, while one woman is said to have been pushed home in a wheelchair with a wheel missing. The revelations have been made in a podcast broadcast this month (April) by the Blackpool Poverty Truth Commission, which operates under the umbrella of Blackpool charity Empowerment.
An investigation into hospital transport found some patients had been left with no means to get home after being discharged from Blackpool Victoria Hospital. The hospital said it does have a wide range of services to ensure people can get home safely, but has since made “a number of changes” to the way it supports vulnerable patients.
