Care worker tipped dementia patient out of wheelchair

COVENTRY

  A care worker counted to three before tipping a dementia patient out of his wheelchair, a hearing was told. The vulnerable patient ended up on the floor after refusing to change out of his urine-soaked trousers. Hugh McCooey was later convicted of mistreating the patient and he has now been banned from practicing for a year. Mc Cooey had been called by colleagues to help the man out of his soiled trousers at Counden Care Manor Care Home in…

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