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Personal Injury Compensation

NHS fined over death

The NHS was fined £40,000 after an 82-year-old man riding a mobility scooter fell 3.7 m to his death when a barrier on a walkway collapsed at Fareham health centre in Hampshire. His scooter collided with a wooden weather screen placed around the main entrance, a section gave way and the mobility scooter fell through the gap onto a footpath below.

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