Hospital failings led to woman’s death after weight loss surgery, coroner says

Susan Evans not seen by specialist at the Queen Alexandra in Portsmouth despite complications and contracted sepsisFailings at a hospital contributed to the death of a 55-year-old woman who suffered abdominal sepsis after weight loss surgery at the time of a junior doctors’ strike, a coroner has said.Susan Evans returned to Queen Alexandra hospital in Portsmouth, Hampshire, with stomach pains two days after undergoing elective gastric bypass surgery. Continue reading...