An arrest was made and the money recovered. In one case, at the Glan Clwyd Hospital, in Rhyl, north Wales, a pension book and £900 went astray.Īmong the more troubling thefts included an iPod taken from a dead person's belongings by a member of the ward staff at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby (the person was dismissed).Īnd at Leeds General Infirmary, £265 cash belonging to a deceased patient was reported missing from a safe. The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust later told us there was an error in the recording of the incident.Ĭash, mobile phones, watches and purses also feature frequently among the thousands of incidents of alleged theft at hospitals across the country over the last three years. Typically wedding rings - and other pieces of jewellery - are some of the most common items reported stolen from patients in hospital.Ī patient at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust reported a £4,000 engagement ring missing, while a necklace worth £2,000 was reported stolen at Scarborough Hospital, and keys and a wallet - with a recorded value of £1,500 - 'disappeared' at Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation trust.Īt Pinderfields Hospital, in West Yorkshire, a patient lost £12,000. The scale of the problem of thefts or personal possessions going missing in NHS hospitals is depressing, as this Good Health investigation reveals. It seems thieves will stop at nothing - earlier this month it was reported that the Royal Gwent Hospital, in Newport, South Wales, has been forced to chain up toys in its children's ward after a spate of thefts. 'He was told that such incidents were so common it was unlikely to lead anywhere.' Although her husband reported it to the police, it was never investigated. 'Somewhere between the ward and the morgue it was gone,' says Jean. This wasn't the first time something like this had happened to Jean's family - her 93-year-old mother-in-law's wedding ring went missing after she died in hospital ten years ago. Jean reported the incident to the police, but the ring was never recovered.
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