I won’t rest is changed

Furious daughter says she was forced to agree her mother was at fault for fall

it out. It was a mess, they had to remove the whole hip joint.

“She didn’t recover from the operation – she never recovered.

“I then got a phone call to say I needed to come up because the operation didn’t go too well.”

Morag then spent days by her mother’s bedside at PRI until she passed away on March 9, 2016.

She continued: “When I first saw her after she had her hip removed I burst into floods of tears because I knew my mum was not going to recover.

“She was unresponsive and she was just lying there and her breathing was quite bad.

“I am so grateful to the staff at the hospital for treating my mum with dignity, the way she should have been treated in the nursing home.”

After her mum passed away, Morag went to a solicitor to try and get compensation for the pain and suffering the care home had caused to her mother Marion, and to herself.

She was first offered a three-figure sum, however after solicitors deemed that not to be enough, it was raised to a small four-figure sum.

But in order to receive this, she had to sign a form agreeing to admit her mum Marion was 60 per cent to blame for the fall.

Morag explained: “I said I wanted compensation for my mum’s suffering, and for me for having to watch her go through it.

“I knew she was not well but they didn’t get a GP until they felt like it.

“The inspector said the medical reports had not been written right, a five-year-old could write better.

“When I contacted the solicitor and explained everything they said it looked like a case they could take on.

“Louisebrae took ages to get back to the solicitors, they just kept making me wait even though they knew the stress and anxiety that would cause me.

“In the end I had to admit my mum was 60 per cent to blame for that fall.

“She had been registered blind since 1965 and had vascular dementia.

“I got a small pittance, but it was not enough for what she went through, she was screaming in pain.

“I have paid thousands to that care home since she went in.

“I am not happy at all, and I will fight this.

“I want a law in my mum’s name that nursing homes and care homes, if they cause an accident by putting things in front of people’s way, they can’t then turn around and say it is the relative’s own fault when it is not.