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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Steven Morris

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

A view of Queen Alexandra hospital
Susan Evans returned to Queen Alexandra hospital, pictured, two days after undergoing elective gastric bypass surgery. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA

Failings 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.

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