Mavis Dewey was 89 years old when she died at the Northern General Hospital on March 29, South Yorkshire West’s assistant coroner Steve Eccleston said in a prevention of future deaths report. In it, he outlined his concerns that agency staff, on occasion, failed to read care plans to keep residents safe. Mr Eccleston found Ms Dewey had died only six days after a fall at the Heeley Bank Care Home in Sheffield on March 23 when staff used the wrong equipment to help her stand in breach of her care plan.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. The coroner added: “Her death was contributed to by neglect from Heeley Bank Care Home.” The coroner said Ms Dewey had become “frailer with a number of underlying health conditions” and her level of need had required residential care.
This was something Heeley Bank Care Home had provided her, the report said. She had had a care plan and it had been set out that she had required two members of staff to help her stand together with a standing aid and sling. The report said: “On March 23, 2024, Mavis was being assisted to stand by two members of staff in her own room.
A stand aid was present in her room but so also was a Zimmer frame. It was not possible to establish how the Zimmer frame got there. Advertisement Advertisement “Ms Davison for Monarch and Heeley Bank .