A jury has heard how an elderly resident at a Halifax nursing home was found in a urine-soaked bed after police attended the premises just over two years ago.
Bradford Crown Court has heard how 78-year-old dementia sufferer Margaret Patterson was at high risk of developing pressure sores because she was completely immobile, but when senior NHS nurse Jane Best saw her in bed she was lying on an ordinary mattress covered with a plastic sheet.
She told the jury that the complainant's incontinence pad was full of urine and it had soaked into the bedding and her clothing.
Mrs Best confirmed that the mattress on the bed was not a ''pressure relieving'' one and Mrs Patterson had two pressure sores in the region of her lower back as well as a sore area on her right groin.
Former manager of the privately-run Elm View nursing home Faheza Simpson, 49, of Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth , and its owner 65-year-old Philip Bentley, of Woodthorpe Drive. Sandal, Wakefield, have both denied neglect charges relating to the care of Mrs Patterson and three other residents.
During cross-examination by Simpson's barrister Michelle Colborne QC it emerged that after the police visit to the home in October 2011 the local primary care trust had loaned £20,000 worth of equipment to Elm View and the owners had committed themselves to carrying out remedial improvement work.
Miss Colborne referred to the minutes of meeting in which it was reported that Simpson was worried about the agency staff at Elm View and that she did not always feel supported by her boss Bentley.
But during questioning from Bentley's barrister Sam Green Mrs Best said she did not feel that Simpson was being ''fully open'' with the investigation at the home.
In relation to Mrs Patterson's missing ''pressure relieving'' mattress she said Simpson could not give any explanation as to where it had gone.
The trial continues.
