Woman died after 'hospital failure'
Updated on 13 April 2007
A woman's life could have been saved on two occasions but for a "gross failure to provide basic medical attention" by hospital staff and an out-of-hours primary care service, an inquest has found.
Alison Christian, 36, died two days before Christmas 2005 at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield after accident and emergency staff and a triage nurse from the telephone service Primecare failed to spot her symptoms.
She was suffering from a peritonitis, an inflammation of the membrane surrounding the abdominal organs, and a perforated duodenal ulcer.
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