Care home fined after woman, 100, fractures knee
A care home has been ordered to pay £25,000 after a 100-year-old resident fractured her knee when her foot became trapped under a wheelchair.
Patricia Jones was being pushed down a ramp at Red House Residential Home in Sudbury, Suffolk, in March 2019.
The CQC said risk assessments determining the type of wheelchair she should use were incomplete.
A district judge heard the company, which pleaded guilty to one offence under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, felt “bitter regret” over the incident.