Link: Superbug inquest – coroner demands change – News – Stockport Express.
STOCKPORT’S coroner has demanded more rigorous checks from doctors responsible for nursing home residents, after an 87-year-old woman contracted MRSA and died.
John Pollard’s call came at the inquest of Eva Duckworth where he heard evidence that the Edgeley grandmother had a 16cm bedsore on her lower back when she was admitted to hospital from a Stockport care home.
The sore became infected with MRSA which ultimately led to her death. However her back had not been examined by the home’s doctor, as he said he had not been alerted to any skin problems.
Mr Pollard, who concluded Mrs Duckworth died of natural causes, is now writing to the home and to GP Dr John Swarbrick, demanding full body checks should become routine, normal practice for all nursing home residents.
