Sent doctors dementia patient House with a broken leg (Scottish)

THE family of elderly dementia patients told how she sent him to a hospital in Edinburgh with a fractured leg - and anyone not noticed it for three months.

• Anna Notman had a fractured leg three months before it was noted

It was only after that Anna Notman, 84 Drylaw, suffered a fall of days after his arrival in five months at Edinburgh Royal Victoria hospital stay that the injury was finally discovered homepage.

It determined that the rupture was about three months old and so must occur at the hospital.

Daughter of Mrs. Notman, Joanne Venters, 40, who lives in Muirhouse and her mother has supported for 13 years, believes that the reason why it can't walk now is up to the blunder.

She said: "when she went she could walk fine at first, but she had a few waterfalls and was in great pain after this."

"She had only been in a few days when one of his tutors found on the floor." It had been extended for 12 hours and could not stand so the caregiver and the GP decided that she should return to the hospital.

At this time that another doctor examined his leg and requested an x-ray which showed that he was a former fracture.

Ms. Venters said: "it has been five months showing the break that is passed while she was here."

"At this point, that they had decided that they could not do anything but leave heal on its own because it is like that for so long."

Ms. Notman test began in June 2009, when she was admitted to the Royal Victoria with a series of problems, vascular dementia nevertheless.

After that the fracture was discovered, she was sent to the establishment of "care" Ferryfield House in Pilton, but was purchased by his family after a fortnight because that she had not been washed in 11 days.

Ms. Venters said his mother, now returning to Victoria's Royal, considered the "" as it had been in a concentration camp"."

The family now wants to once Marionville Lochend, but NHS Lothian care home takes him move out of the hospital and one or two temporary facilities.

Ms. Venters said that could have an adverse effect on dementia of his mother and that she was reluctant to go to another hospital experience Ferryfield.

But she added: "I must say the nurses at the Royal Victoria were wonderful."