Gillian Astbury: Staffordshire Trust Charged

Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust will face criminal charges over the death of a 66-year-old diabetic woman who fell into a coma.

Gillian Astbury died in 2007 at Stafford Hospital, with an inquest finding that a failure to administer insulin was a gross failure to provide basic care.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has decided there is enough evidence to bring criminal proceedings

A report earlier this year highlighted "appalling and unnecessary suffering of hundreds of people" at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust between 2005 and 2009.

Mrs Astbury, from Hednesford, Staffordshire, died in the early hours of April 11, 2007, while being treated for fractures to her arm and pelvis.

Jurors at the September 2010 inquest found that a contributory factor in her death was a systemic failure to provide adequate nursing facilities and low staffing levels.

In its verdict, the 10-member jury said that "there were serious shortcomings in systems and in implementation, monitoring and management of the systems in place.

"Nursing facilities were poor, staff levels were too low, training was poor, and record keeping and communications systems were poor and inadequately managed."

The inquest heard that Mrs Astbury's blood sugar levels were not properly monitored and insulin was not administered on the day before her death, despite being prescribed by doctors.

As many as 1,200 patients may have died needlessly after they were "routinely neglected" at Stafford Hospital.

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