PATIENT PILLS SHOCK

Care ward under review for 'doping' elderly

- BY MARK MCGIVERN

A DEMENTIA ward where old people were “doped up” with unprescribed pills is part of a “wider breakdown in patient safety”.

That is the claim by Labour's mental health spokesman Paul Sweeney, as he vowed to take up the case with SNP Health Secretary Neil Gray.

The Record revealed how patients on the Jura Ward at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, were given unprescribed painkillers which one APPALLING Saturday's story family claimed turned their elderly dad into a “zombie”.