LucyBudge published Nathan Ferris inquest: Nurse failed to perform hourly check after...

A nurse at a mental health hospital told an inquest he failed to carry out a routine check on a patient who choked to death on his food - because he was left on his own on the ward for an hour. Nathan Ferris, who was a patient at the Wells Road hospital in Mapperley and had paranoid schizophrenia and Asperger's, died just after midnight on July 14, last year. During the second day of the inquest at Nottingham Coroner's Court, the jury heard how Andy Hunt was left on his own while two...