Two patients suffering from delirium who died after falling from windows at the same hospital were put at risk by failures to “adequately manage” their care.
Lothian Health Board was fined £220,000 for failing to protect the vulnerable patients, who came to the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh with a head injury and hallucinations respectively.
In October 2017, a 55-year-old patient being treated at the neurosurgery ward after a suicide attempt fell more than 11 metres to his death from a second-floor window.
The window in his room was not restricted to the required 100mm opening gap. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that there had been a failure to ensure the patient was in a room which had suitably restricted windows. The
