Nurse’s mistake leaves patient brain-damaged

A TETRAPLEGIC man whose life-support machine was mistakenly turned off by an agency nurse working for the British NHS has been left with severe brain damage, it emerged yesterday.

Nurse’s mistake leaves patient brain-damaged

Jamie Merrett, 37, was so worried about the care he had been receiving at his home that he alerted Wiltshire NHS and had a camera set up in his bedroom, which captured the incident in January 2009.

An investigation also found the company that employed the nurse did not have adequate systems in place to check the training staff had received.

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