NHS trusts accused of cover-up over attack on hospital ward

Two men died after being beaten with a walking stick by 70-year-old Harry Bosomworth at St James’s University hospital

NHS authorities have been accused of trying to cover up an incident in which two patients were attacked by another on a hospital ward after his antipsychotic drugs were stopped. The two men later died.

Details of the incident have only now become public after the leaking of a previously unpublished investigation report into the incident, which took place at St James’s University hospital, Leeds, in February 2015.

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