Patient died after drugs blunders at failing home

An elderly resident choked to death at a care home after a nurse left liquid medication in his reach and then failed to resuscitate him, a tribunal heard. Elizabeth Corser left the medicine on the man’s bedside table while on duty at Beechwood Care Home in Northallerton, North Yorkshire. Corser then failed to perform CPR on the pensioner while an ambulance was called and he later died, Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. But Corser escaped a ban when she was…