Court fines OSJCT over dementia patient

Not-for-profit provider The Orders of St John Care Trust has been ordered to pay a £140,000 fine after an 84-year-old woman was left outside of one of its homes in freezing conditions for several hours.Dorothy Spicer was found lying face down outside Whitefriars care home in Stamford, Lincolnshire in 2009 and died of pneumonia two…

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