The news reports I have read said the hospital did not reprimand the staff. As I said way up there, I hold the hospital party responsible for this ‘prank’ being allowed to happen. We are talking about the Royal family and as such they attract media attention – good and bad. Yet the staff who were working on the ward where the Duchess was housed do not seem to have been given any training in how to vet calls before providing information. That is a lapse on the part of the hospital.
As hospital spokespeople have said she was not reprimanded and in fact was treated with sympathy, this again suggests to me she had other problems. I don’t actually see why she should have felt ‘humiliated’ (except in her own mind) since most of the reports even prior to her death were critical of the prank. I have not seen one report where the nurses were held up to criticism. Furthermore, this report shows that Prince Charles had even laughed it off.
I can see you would like to have these DJs hanged, drawn and quartered and perhaps you would like their heads stuck on a pike and placed on Tower Bridge. I will wait until any subsequent inquiries are completed before saying their prank was the main cause of this woman’s choosing to suicide.