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83 Year Old Grandfather Arrested
Was there a sadder case in the papers today? Walter Crompton was arrested for administering a noxious substance.His crime?To take morphine patches,which had been prescribed by the doctor,to apply to the skin of his Wife of 63 years to relieve her pain from chronic arthritis.The poor woman suffers from Dementia and when arrested he was banned completely from seeing her and she therefore thought he had abandoned her.Pity Greater Manchester police weren't as zealous with some other criminals.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.But Mr Crompton said the patches had been prescribed by a doctor and said care home staff did not tell him the pain relief patches were banned - just that his wife’s codeine prescription was not allowed on the premises.
I don't understand how the patches were prescribed by a doctor yet the care home say there banned.
I don't understand how the patches were prescribed by a doctor yet the care home say there banned.
As I understood it she had been prescribed both the morphine patches and the codeine tablets BEFORE going into the home, the home were only aware of the existence of the tablets and told her husband she wasn't allowed them in there, he was not told he couldn't give her the patches her own GP had prescribed for her.
IN Health care there is quite a lot of :
the rules say we cant do narfing....
but she is in pain
yeah but - there's a rule see ? no pain relief .....
not very patient-centred I agree
BUT
The morphine patches clearly werent prescribed for her, they were for him and he used them on her.
OK at home but I can see why the care home baulked
Dangerous drug without prescription being used without authority.
as for the care staff being moved by the dement thinking she had been abandoned - I can tell you - they wouldnt have given a f+++.
the rules say we cant do narfing....
but she is in pain
yeah but - there's a rule see ? no pain relief .....
not very patient-centred I agree
BUT
The morphine patches clearly werent prescribed for her, they were for him and he used them on her.
OK at home but I can see why the care home baulked
Dangerous drug without prescription being used without authority.
as for the care staff being moved by the dement thinking she had been abandoned - I can tell you - they wouldnt have given a f+++.
It doesn't say she was prescribed them or where they came from. I think there's more to this than is being reported. People often change doctors going into a care home and she may have been given something different. Certainly, the home will be investigated for "allowing" someone to bring in and administer controlled drugs without any records. Homes will administer whatever the GP prescribes, so there is something strange there.
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