{"id":143495,"date":"2025-11-19T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143495\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:48:14","slug":"healthcare-worker-admits-neglect-over-patient-death-in-nottingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143495\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare worker admits neglect over patient death in Nottingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A healthcare assistant has admitted neglect by a care worker on the day a patient died at a mental health facility in Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sylvia Quaye-Mensah, of Monsall Avenue in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, was working at Highbury Hospital on 12 September 2022, when 19-year-old Louise Furlong died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The 42-year-old pleaded guilty to ill-treatment or neglect by a care worker at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Judge James Sampson told the defendant her offence was &#8220;so serious&#8221;, she should prepare herself for time in prison when she is sentenced at the same court on 2 March 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">During the hearing, prosecutors dropped one count of misconduct in a public office and two counts of ill treatment or neglect by a care worker after hearing the guilty plea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The court had earlier heard Quaye-Mensah was on her second day of work at Highbury Hospital when she was overseeing Ms Furlong, who was suffering from headaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A healthcare assistant has admitted neglect by a care worker on the day a patient died at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-143495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}