A coroner has ruled that a Spalding woman’s death in hospital was preventable.
Ann Coupland (66), of Carrington Road, died from septicemia and a perforated bowel in Peterborough City Hospital on September 1, 2011.
She had been readmitted in pain on August 30, days after being sent home from an inpatient stay with an outpatient appointment in three weeks’ time for a colonoscopy (examination of the large bowel).
Part of senior coroner for Peterborough David Heming’s narrative conclusion, which had been delayed, read: “On a balance of probability, had a surgical intervention been undertaken during an inpatient admission between August 18 and 25, 2011, or up to August 29, 2011, death would have been prevented.”
Link to original published in December: https://spaldingvoice.co.uk/news/spalding-widowers-campaign-fatal-nhs-error/
