The Evening Times ran an article about figures in a new report showing that women from Lanarkshire experience higher-than-average rates of stillbirth and neonatal deaths than other parts of Scotland. The region recorded the second-highest rate in Scotland with 6.42 deaths per 1,000 births. However it is worth noting that the figure of 7,096 Lanarkshire resident […]
Over half a century of exceptional care for veteran Jimmy
A veteran who is believed to be the UK’s longest serving patient has died after spending 54 years in Wester Moffat Hospital.
Jimmy Morris, who was 75 when he died, was admitted to the hospital in 1963 after he suffered a cardiac arrest on an operating table in Germany and was left in a vegetative state.
His brother Karl was amazed when it was suggested by staff that no one in the UK had been in care longer than Jimmy who was admitted at the age of 21.
Karl said: “Everyone at Wester Moffat was outstanding, to care for a man throughout his entire life is quite something and we couldn’t be more grateful.
“The staff were unbelievable. Jimmy was a mad lover of Elvis they even organised special nights which he enjoyed.
“I can’t imagine anyone has ever lived so long in an NHS hospital which I think is a remarkable reflection on Wester Moffat and NHS Lanarkshire.”
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