DULCIE MIDDLETON, 86

FOLLOWING a stroke in 2001, Dulcie Middleton was sent to Gosport after treatment to prepare for returning home.

Here she was denied food and water and given unnecessary drugs – so understandably her daughter Marjorie Bulbeck asked her to be moved to a different hospital. But by then the damage had been done, and Mrs Middleton died at the age of 6.

Her daughter Mrs Bulbeck, 75, has since received an apology from the NHS about her mother’s treatment at Gosport, which she sums up as ‘lack of food, lack of water, lack of care’. ‘She was given drugs I know she did not need,’ she added.