A vulnerable 96-year-old grandad was discarded at his home by a hospital driver when no-one was around to take care of him.
Cliff Schofield’s distraught daughter Jane, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, found him collapsed in a chair still in his hospital gown.
She told the Sun: ‘We are absolutely disgusted. The driver surely has a duty of care for the person he is taking home?’
Mr Schofield, a retired steelworker, had been taken to hospital after he fell, injuring his back and cutting his hand.
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust apologised for the ‘inadequate’ care and said it was investigating the incident
The following day Jane was informed by hospital staff that her father would be released and so rushed to the hospital with clothes for him.
She said: ‘When I got to hospital he’d gone. The nurse I’d spoken to wasn’t there and other staff didn’t seem to know anything about it.’
When Jane reached his house she was horrified to find him inside, curled up on a chair much too small for him.
Worse still, a few feet away was a bigger armchair with a comfortable cushion.
Yet the hospital drivers appeared to have ‘dumped him in the first chair they came across’, Jane said.
She believes her father was left there for at least 30 minutes before she arrived.
Jane and husband Brian, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, were so angered that they decided to take a photograph of Mr Schofield as they found him and send it to the hospital.
Brian said: ‘We want to know why he was discharged without any clothes, how the driver gained entry to his house and why he was left on his own.’
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust apologised for the ‘inadequate’ care and said it was investigating the incident.