Castle Hill in Winchester: location of Winchester Coroners Court A BISHOP’S Waltham man died after suffering a fall at his home, an inquest opening heard. Victor Gordon Hampton was taken to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, in Winchester, after he fell at his home in Pine Road on December 29 last year. A hearing at Winchester Coroner’s Court was told that the 71-year-old died on January 3 this year. Opening the inquest, area coroner Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp said that there was a “suggestion of asbestos exposure in Mr Hampton’s previous records”. A post mortem carried out by Dr Adnan Al-Badri said Mr Hampton died of cardiac failure and chronic lung disease.
STAFF at the trust which runs Winchester hospital after facing increasing pressures, with patients being moved to the area to help other struggling hospitals. The Chronicle understands that the sites run by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) are being called upon to take Covid patients from other trusts across the south east. While the trust did not disclose where patients are being transferred from, it is understood that those who are critically ill with the virus have been moved to Southampton from Kent. Patients in the south east have also been moved to hospitals as far away as Plymouth, Bristol and Leeds as cases rise and fears grow that London and Kent could run out of hospital beds.
Photo from Google Street View A care home has been ordered to take action after staff failed to call 999 when an elderly resident fell and hit his head. Arthur Edward Johnson, 85, suffered a brain haemorrhage after he fell at Oakridge House Residential Home, on Jefferson Road, on April 17, 2020. He died at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester three days later. Area coroner Jason Pegg opened an inquest into his death on April 21, 2020 where he concluded the death was an accident. But Mr Pegg was not satisfied with how the staff handled Mr Johnson s fall and he is now calling for change to prevent future deaths.
A coroner has said it “is very sad someone can die this way” after there were “several missed opportunities” before the death of an Andover man. Coroner Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp made the comments during an inquest into the death of Leigh Anthony Gidel, who was found dead in an Andover flat no answer on the door for “several days”. An open verdict was given for Leigh’s death, with a post-mortem being inconclusive as the body had decomposed ‘markedly’ before it was found. Winchester Coroner’s Court heard how the 33-year-old had “become a bit of a recluse” after becoming estranged from his family, and being evicted by his parents in 2014.