{"id":549674,"date":"2026-04-25T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549674\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:54:08","slug":"hospital-staff-abandoned-my-disabled-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549674\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hospital staff abandoned my disabled sister&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fazilet Hadi, head of policy at the charity Disability Rights UK, said it was &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221; that Elizabeth had not received the reasonable adjustments she was entitled to by law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;NHS Trusts need to take equality seriously and ensure that they have the policies, processes and training in place to meet the needs of disabled patients,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Bolton, executive chief nurse at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: &#8220;We are very sorry to hear about the experience of the patient and their family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is not the standard of care we strive to provide, and we understand how distressing it must have been for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We would welcome the opportunity to speak with the family directly so we can fully understand their concerns and look into them in detail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By September 30, all NHS England organisations will be required to have &#8220;reasonable adjustment flags&#8221; in their IT systems to identify patients in need of more support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will provide a marker on a patient&#8217;s digital health records to help organisations meet their legal duty under the Equality Act 2010 to provide reasonable adjustments for disabled people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fazilet Hadi, head of policy at the charity Disability Rights UK, said it was &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221; that Elizabeth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-549674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}