Health trusts fined over Jade Norton bed fall death

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Two health trusts have been fined £60,000 over the death of a disabled 10-year-old who fell from her faulty bed.

Jade Norton suffocated when plastic sheets fell on her in at her home in Blackpool in June 2011.

Blackpool Primary Healthcare and North Lancashire Primary Care trusts admitted health and safety breaches.

Her family asked on five occasions for a fault to be repaired, Preston Crown Court heard.

The court was told of the "multiple failings" from the trusts and prosecutor Lisa Roberts, for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said the errors "went back four years."

She said: "She was sleeping in a bed with rails that were blatantly not safe.

"She was unable to move once the bed had failed."

Miss Roberts said the North Lancashire trust had no record of the bed's existence and took no action when it was reported damaged.

Advantage Healthcare Ltd, now Interserve Care Ltd, responsible for providing care to Jade, was also fined £50,000 after admitting two health and safety breaches.

Two health trusts have been fined £60,000 over the death of a disabled 10-year-old who fell from her faulty bed.

Jade Norton suffocated when plastic sheets fell on her in at her home in Blackpool in June 2011.

Blackpool Primary Healthcare and North Lancashire Primary Care trusts admitted health and safety breaches.

Her family asked on five occasions for a fault to be repaired, Preston Crown Court heard.

The court was told of the "multiple failings" from the trusts and prosecutor Lisa Roberts, for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said the errors "went back four years."




She said: "She was sleeping in a bed with rails that were blatantly not safe.

"She was unable to move once the bed had failed."

Miss Roberts said the North Lancashire trust had no record of the bed's existence and took no action when it was reported damaged.

Advantage Healthcare Ltd, now Interserve Care Ltd, responsible for providing care to Jade, was also fined £50,000 after admitting two health and safety breaches.