Relatives of a terminally ill great-grandfather today accused 'disgusting' hospice bosses of 'killing him off' after he was forcibly moved in his final hours when they shut it down without notice.
Jack Tolson Holt, 83, died less than 48 hours after he was transferred into an emergency ambulance and driven 17 miles from the Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice, in Leeds, to a different hospice, in Keighley, last August.
Today 'ineffective' managers at Wheatfields were slammed for placing patients at 'risk of harm' and 'directly contributing' to poor care in a damning report.
The health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), also rated the hospice inadequate and placed it into special measures amid concerns it is failing people receiving end-of-life care.
Mr Holt's daughter, Michelle Turner, 63, told the Mail that she burst into tears when distraught staff told her about the last-minute decision to close during a routine visit.
