Hospital fined £5,000 - Manchester Evening News 27th November 2007

A HOSPITAL has been ordered to pay £7,000 after a patient climbed out of a window and broke an ankle. Paul Newell was admitted to Stockport's Stepping Hill Hospital to be treated for alcoholism. He opened a window, climbed on to the sill and dropped to the ground. Stockport Hospitals pleaded guilty at Trafford Magistrates' Court to breaching the Health and Safety At Work Act and were fined £5,000 and told to pay almost £2,000 costs.

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