NHS admits charges over pensioner's mobility scooter plunge death
THE NHS has admitted breaching health and safety laws after a pensioner died after plunging off a walkway on his mobility scooter.
The Health and Safety Executive is prosecuting NHS Litigation for a breach of rules after Benjamin Withers fell 12ft and died from severe head injuries.
Jurors at an inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death following the incident at Fareham Health Centre in 2012.
Shaken witnesses wept at the grandfather’s inquest as they relived the tragic incident and efforts to save him.
The medical centre was then owned by NHS Hampshire and let out to NHS Portsmouth, but these bodies were abolished in 2013. The NHS Litigation Authority has taken on criminal litigation for the abolished health bodies.
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