Dementia patient allowed to walk on to the A6

An elderly dementia patient was run over and killed after he wandered out of a hospital ward without anyone noticing, a tribunal heard. Peter Hunt, 83, was hit by a vehicle on the A6 after he left the Preston Royal Hospital in Lancashire on 6 December 2016. Nurse Deborah Cook failed to provide a handover to a colleague after completing her hectic shift on the chronically short-staffed ward. Despite repeated requests by her co-worker, ward sister Cook said she was…