COVID-19: patient dies after catching virus in Brighton ward where beds not distanced

A CORONER has slammed a hospital trust after a vulnerable patient caught Covid-19 on a ward where beds were not socially distanced.

Senior coroner for Brighton and Hove, Veronica Hamilton-Deeley, has sent a rare Regulation 28 report for the prevention of future deaths to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, following the death of 78-year-old Brian Button last October.

The grandfather-of-three from Pevensey was admitted to hospital after a fall, but contracted coronavirus on the Catherine James ward within the Acute Respiratory Unit.