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Former Canberra nurse dies in 'sudden and unnatural death' after hospital staff fail to tick a box

Coroner Ken Archer found issues of public safety at the Canberra Hospital. (ABC News: Ian Cutmore)

An inquest into the death of Patricia 'Jill' Croxon, 79, at the Canberra Hospital in August 2019 has found she was given the wrong form of medication, causing her heart to slow down to catastrophic levels. 

Mrs Croxon had been taken to hospital by her son, where she was diagnosed with pneumonia two days before her death.  

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