THE son of a man who died at Worcestershire Royal Hospital has praised the nursing staff at the Laurel 2 respiratory unit for their “Superb” standard of care during his four-week stay.

David Webb, 88, was admitted to A&E at the Royal suffering from aspiration pneumonia as a result of his dementia and poor swallowing reflex.

After two days he was moved to the Laurel 2 respiratory unit where he spent the next four weeks before his death.

David’s son Clive has now come forward to speak in glowing terms of the nurses caring for his father.

He said: “The nursing staff really went out of their way to make dad comfortable.

“They turned him every hour in bed and even gave him a present on Christmas day.

“There are some very kind, caring nurses at the hospital who treated him so well and were also very kind to myself and my wife and cousin when we visited.”

Mr Webb said he found it hard to come to terms with the fact his father was dying of pneumonia, but that the nurses “really tried to make him comfortable” in his last days.

His father was originally from London and worked as an admin clerk for IBM until his retirement in 1987, at which point he and his wife retired to Malvern.

Mrs Webb died four years ago and David was a resident of Bedwardine Care Home in Worcester until he went into hospital.

According to Clive, he was a lover of classical music and the nurses let him bring in a record player and play Handel’s Messiah in his father’s room.

Mr Webb said: “I do not know if dad heard it but he lifted his head off the pillow, and it is those things which make going through something like this much more bearable.”

Mr Webb said he wanted to tell his father's story to show how the hospital had got it right.

He said: “You hear all kinds of stories about people being left on trolleys in A&E for hours, but I just wanted to prove that it is not always the case.

“To all the nurses who helped - thank you for caring for dad.”