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Hospital denies patient was missing several hours before alarm raised
• John Howe, who went missing from the John Radcliffe Hospital, was found the next day
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able clothing for cold outdoor weather. “They’ve done the operation, cut open his head again and relieved all the fluid, and then they’ve obviously just left him,” said Jenny. “The last time they checked him was 12.30pm, and when they looked on CCTV they’ve got him leaving the hospital at 4.37pm, so that’s a four hour gap. “He’s got short-term memory loss, and they’re supposed to be keeping checks on him.” However a statement from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, who operate the John Radcliffe, said that John was missing “for no more than an hour” before he was noticed
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as gone, with their last observation of him recorded at 6pm. It added that security searched the hospital for around an hour without success before police were called. Catherine Stoddart, chief nurse at the trust, said: “I am very pleased that the patient who had gone missing from our hospital has been found safely. “Our staff worked with Thames Valley Police and Mr Howe’s family to offer them support and to share our CCTV footage to help track his movements on our site. “The trust will be having an investigation into how Mr Howe was able to go missing. “The investigation will also look at the processes that were followed once it was established he was missing so that we can learn from this for the future.”
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A MAN who disappeared from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on Sunday was not noticed as missing for more than three hours, his daughter has claimed. John Howe, 67, from Milton Keynes, was recovering from an operation on his brain when he was reported missing to police by hospital staff at 8.15pm. His daughter Jenny Long said that CCTV shows her father leaving the hospital at 4.37pm – more than three and a half hours earlier. John was found safe and well shortly after 11am the following morning 30 miles away in Reading – almost 15 hours after his disappearance was reported. He suffered a brain aneurism six years ago, and is thought to have been confused when he left the hospital wearing unsuit-
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