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Assistant coroner Geraint Williams took Mr McCaffrey through a series of documents detailing concerns of care staff about resident Edith Evans, 85, and the deteriorating condition of the feeding tube to her stomach. A dementia sufferer, she was admitted to hospital on September 16 2005 with MRSA and an infection to her peg feeding system. Mrs Evans, a widow, died two weeks later and a pathologist found her death was caused by sepsis that developed from the peg site – an infection which had been present “seven weeks before admission to hospital”. Mr McCaffrey told the inquest he ...

“Her general condition I would describe as poor. She looked unclean, her hair was matted and unkempt. “She was dirty from faeces and in my opinion she had been in this condition for some considerable time.” Edith Evans. Picture: PA She added: “I was quite shocked at her appearance and the way she was left at the care home to come to A&E without anybody with her.” Mrs Pulman said she was asked to contact the nursing home to find out why she had not been accompanied to the hospital and was sent without medical records. The inquest heard she spoke to the home’s nurse-matron...

BBC News Published image captionEdith Evans spent six years at Brithdir Care Home An 85-year-old woman was sent from a care home to hospital without a member of staff, medical history or next of kin details, an inquest has heard. Edith Evans arrived at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil from Brithdir care home "unclean, with hair matted and unkempt, incontinent and dirty with faeces, and had been in this condition for some time". Her stomach feeding tube was infected with MRSA, which caused sepsis. She died in September 2005. The inquest in Newport is hearing evidence into the deaths ...

A&E nurse shocked by care home patient arriving 'unclean and dirty from faeces' A coroner has heard how dementia patient Edith Evans appeared to have been neglected at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar. She arrived in hospital filthy having been so 'for some considerable time' Pensioner Edith Evans was taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil where she later died (Image: Media Wales Ltd) An elderly woman was left so poorly neglected by nursing home staff that hospital workers were left shocked by her condition, an inquest has heard. Dementia patient Edith Evans, 85, was sufferi...

An inquest in Newport is hearing evidence into the deaths of seven residents of the care home between 2003 and 2005. Brithdir was closed in 2006, with owner Dr Prana Das dying before he stood trial accused of care failings. Giving evidence Philip McCaffrey, who worked as a nurse-matron at the home from June 2005 to January 2006, said: “I would have to agree our standard of care was not acceptable.” Assistant coroner Geraint Williams asked: “The suggestion is that you or your nursing colleagues were negligent in your care of Mr Bradford. Would you accept that?” Mr McCaffrey r...