The family of a woman who died at a care home have been told that she had died of natual causes after they attempted to file a compensation claim.
The 87 year old woman who had been suffering from dementia suffered four per cent burns after she was left on a commode which was filled with hot water to ease her constipation and haemorrhoids.
She was taken to hospital the next day and required extensive skin grafts as a result.
A month later, she had died.
Her son believed her death was down to staff negligence and went on to file a claim.
Yet an investigation found that there was "no causual relationship between the burns she suffered in the nursing home from being left on the commode...and her ultimate cause of death."
And the nurse and two assistants were cleared of negligence.
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