A WOMAN has raised fears over the monitoring of patients amid claims her daughter swallowed a battery, lighters and a necklace while in hospital care.

Kate Woods’ daughter Sandra has spent three years in the care of 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust at Hollins Park Hospital in Winwick and at Leigh Infirmary.

The 25-year-old has been diagnosed with a personality disorder, chromosome default and dyspraxia.

She was first admitted to Whiston Hospital in May 2013 after taking her sister’s insulin and she has remained in hospitals since then.

Her mother claims Sandra managed to swallow a battery from an electric razor along with a necklace and lighters while in the care of 5 Boroughs. She claims a nurse gave her daughter the lighter and was also handed the necklace by staff.

Kate, of Pennington Road in Leigh, says her daughter was not monitored properly on the Auden unit at the 5 Boroughs hospital in Winwick and adds staff were not allowing her to take Sandra from the hospital for trips out due to ‘safety reasons’.

The 57-year-old said: “The hospital is neglecting her and they are not looking after her – I want people to know that this is happening to vulnerable people and someone has got to stand up for them.

“Sandra says that she is missing her mum because they are not letting me take her out, which they are just telling me is for safety reasons.

“I want an apology from 5 Boroughs because they’re not going to get away with treating my daughter like they have.”

A spokesman for 5 Boroughs said it was unable to comment on individual cases or service users.

Speaking to the Leigh Journal in 2014, Kate said she was worried her daughter was ‘slipping through the cracks’ due to a lack of funding in health care.

Her campaigning, supported by Leigh MP Andy Burnham, managed to get her daughter moved from Leigh Infirmary to Hollins Park with 24-hour supervision.