Now this is something worth suing over.

"Peter Thompson, 41, died in a rehab unit at the Manchester Royal Infirmary after being left slumped on the floor without being checked for 10 hours. CCTV images show nurses stepping over his lifeless body, then dragging him out of the way outside the ... "

http://news.google.com/news/story?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&pq=peter+thompson&xhr=t&q=Peter+Thompson+NHS&cp=18&qe=UGV0ZXIgVGhvbXBzb24gTkhT&qesig=C3G0q3QZAqR5LY060kwJTQ&pkc=AFgZ2tkBXP5UQvEZbjU6lu8I2deZsyiNBr35wTc7ZG2MQgqFXaesnnwfCN2JQC3NjzR4WrI5pt_xuMgXWxxXBKfqnEUznId8yA&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=998&bih=604&wrapid=tlif130758615502310&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=ddhnAiC7vWF_AIM&ei=ay7wTe-IGZHPrQf7w5RF&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCIQqgIwAA

A very sad situation for all concerned.

where they nurses those taking away the body? , as they where 2 males in civvy clothes, maybe cleaners??? ...

where they nurses those taking away the body? , as they where 2 males in civvy clothes, maybe cleaners??? ...

No, Boater, in the article it says 'hospital auxiliaries' - so, yes, cleaners.

This guy was a voluntary in-patient in a drink/drugs rehab treatment ward. He goes out, returns with a bottle of vodka, was not let in (bloody right! is he mad?) and so collapsed in the corridor. I would suggest that the staff were probably used to this and just left him to sleep it off.

To me a rehab place for guys like this should be lock-down, not open door. He was obviously not trying to get with the programme voluntarily, so either kick him out or take very hard measures.

(My experience)

Years ago in Moscow I witnessed at least twice people walking along the street, stepping over bodies of people who were - presumably - passed out drunk.

While walking in Estonia we came across an elderly woman who had fallen and hurt herself. She must have been in at least her 70's. Another passerby called the ambulance and one of the first questions they asked was whether or not we could smell alcohol on the old lady because they wouldn't come pick her up if she had been drinking.

Years ago in Moscow I witnessed at least twice people walking along the street, stepping over bodies of people who were - presumably - passed out drunk.

While walking in Estonia we came across an elderly woman who had fallen and hurt herself. She must have been in at least her 70's. Another passerby called the ambulance and one of the first questions they asked was whether or not we could smell alcohol on the old lady because they wouldn't come pick her up if she had been drinking.

most sundays i drive through soi green mango in samui, as it is a short cut to the high street, and more or less every sunday morning around 10 am , there is normally a western male passed out ( different one every time ) in the under pass or on the stalls outside the international bar

most sundays i drive through soi green mango in samui, as it is a short cut to the high street, and more or less every sunday morning around 10 am , there is normally a western male passed out ( different one every time ) in the under pass or on the stalls outside the international bar

Common enough anywhere in Thailand, though usually locals, not farangs where I've lived. The first time I saw one outside my gate in Chiangmai, I thought he was dead... went to the local mom and pop shop to get help, and a small boy came back with me, took one look, and said "Mau', and ran off laughing. TIT

"Now this is something worth suing over."

That's not the natural first reaction of UK citizens...

Sueing the NHS is like stealing money from your own pocket.

"Now this is something worth suing over."

That's not the natural first reaction of UK citizens...

Sueing the NHS is like stealing money from your own pocket.

All you're doing is preventing the NHS administration from stealing it.

Nowt gets down to the people at the coal-face.

"Now this is something worth suing over."

That's not the natural first reaction of UK citizens...

Sueing the NHS is like stealing money from your own pocket.

Anyone sueing their own government would be like taking the money from their own pocket - as long as they pay taxes. So does that make it unnatural to sue the goverment?

"Now this is something worth suing over."

That's not the natural first reaction of UK citizens...

Sueing the NHS is like stealing money from your own pocket.

All you're doing is preventing the NHS administration from stealing it.

Nowt gets down to the people at the coal-face.

Tell me about it. I used to work for a company that supplied kit to the NHS. Their ineptitude made us bankrupt.