An 89-year-old man died after hospital staff left him with only one rail on his bed to prevent him from falling out.

Pensioner Francis Steele, of Lower Netchwood, Dilton Priors, near Bridgnorth, died two weeks after falling from his bed at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital on 21 November 2007.

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