{"id":568330,"date":"2026-03-27T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568330\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:33:08","slug":"sussex-man-died-after-record-keeping-mistake-with-epilepsy-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568330\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex man died after record-keeping mistake with epilepsy drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the corner’s report, external<\/a>, Coastal Homecare had digitally recorded the NHS records of Fisher’s care.<\/p>\n

“Coastal Healthcare indicated that a mistake was made when documenting the medications”, leading to one epilepsy drug being missed for six days.<\/p>\n

Taylor said: “This mistake was not spotted at all and there is no system in place to cross check what has previously been given when there is a handover between different care agencies.<\/p>\n

“Nor was there any liaison with the community pharmacy who regularly dispensed Mr Fisher’s medication.”<\/p>\n

Fisher was first diagnosed with epilepsy in 2020 and was admitted to hospital twice the following year, according to Taylor.<\/p>\n

“He remained seizure free for almost four years” until being admitted to hospital shortly before his death.<\/p>\n

Coastal Homecare said its thoughts were with Fisher’s family and it would “continue to work with all involved… to ensure that we are all able to learn from this”.<\/p>\n

The NHS trust said it wanted to “express our sincere condolences to the family of Mr Fisher” and would “provide a full response to the coroner in due course”.<\/p>\n

The agency and the NHS trust have until 13 May to respond to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the corner’s report, external, Coastal Homecare had digitally recorded the NHS records of Fisher’s care. “Coastal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-568330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}