12 April 2012
Sunday 12 January

About 10am: Mrs Addis falls in her flat in Stoke Newington. Her home help calls an ambulance and one arrives at the flat.

11.50am: Mrs Addis arrives at the Whittington hospital and is admitted.

11.52am: She is taken to the A&E department where she is examined. The hospital says she was examined and treated immediately, although because her head wound was still bleeding it could not be sutured. She is given lunch in A&E and, because she was confused, placed near to the nurses' station, although not in a ward.

2pm: Mrs Addis's daughter, 72-year-old Zena Gold, telephones the hospital to check everything is OK. She is told her mother is "comfortable".

4pm: Mrs Addis is taken to a four-bed bay next to A&E with no sign of being transferred to a bed.

Monday 13 January

Mrs Addis remains in the bay which is used as an overnight stay ward for casualty patients.

Tuesday 14 January

11.30am: Mrs Gold arrives at the hospital for a visit and finds her mother sitting in a chair alongside two elderly men, still "caked" in blood.

8.30pm: Mrs Addis is finally moved to a ward bed.

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