{"id":763982,"date":"2026-09-08T13:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763982\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:30:57","slug":"yeovil-district-hospital-sorry-after-patients-nil-by-mouth-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763982\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeovil District Hospital sorry after patient&#8217;s nil-by-mouth death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said Frehe had been given food and drink on 25 August 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added this led to her vomiting and her condition &#8220;deteriorating significantly&#8221; until she died in hospital the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The coroner said not only was the nil-by-mouth order not communicated between wards, but when Frehe&#8217;s family mentioned her nil-by-mouth status, this was not documented by ward staff.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has since said it will improve its standardisation of emergency department-to-ward handover, how staff document, escalate, and act upon concerns raised by families, and will strengthen its education and training for clinical staff in relation to dysphagia [difficulty or discomfort when swallowing foods and liquids], aspiration risk, and safe management of nutrition and hydration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report said Frehe had been given food and drink on 25 August 2025. It added this led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-763982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763982","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=763982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}