{"id":514,"date":"2015-06-02T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2015-06-01T10:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T09:54:31","slug":"patient-dies-after-being-given-massive-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/patient-dies-after-being-given-massive-overdose\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Dies After Being Given \u201cMassive Overdose\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

A patient who died after being given an anti-psychotic drug had expressed concerns about the large dose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bristol Crown Court has heard how two mental health nurses arrived at Joshua Gafney\u2019s home on 8 February 2012 to administer a dose of clozapine.<\/span><\/p>\n

He required just 6mls of the anti-psychotic drug but was given 14 times this amount, with a nurse pouring six bottles into a glass for him to drink.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the patient\u2019s mother questioned the dosage, the nurse said \u2018that\u2019s OK, that\u2019s what Josh has got to have.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Gafney also suspected a mistake, asking his mother Tina Marren: \u2018it was a little bit much wasn\u2019t it Mum, why did she give me that much?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs Marren told the jury that she replied: \u2018I don\u2019t know Josh, she\u2019s a nurse, she knows what she\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Gafney, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, went to bed shortly after being given the medication. He was found lifeless just one hour later. <\/span><\/p>\n

Paramedics were called but he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mental health nurse who administered the drug is currently on trial accused of manslaughter of gross negligence. She denies all allegations. <\/span><\/p>\n

Prescription errors<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you or your family member has experienced serious complications as a result of a prescription error, you need to seek independent legal advice. Please contact us for more information. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A patient who died after being given an anti-psychotic drug had expressed concerns about the large dose. Bristol Crown Court has heard how two mental health nurses arrived at Joshua Gafney\u2019s home on 8 February 2012 to administer a dose of clozapine. He required just 6mls of the anti-psychotic drug but was given 14 times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[352,519,145,520,135],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medication-negligence-claims","tag-medication-error","tag-medication-overdose","tag-patient-death","tag-prescription-error-death","tag-prescription-errors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}