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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Whittaker

Hospital trust slammed by watchdog after woman dies while waiting almost three months for cancer treatment

A hospital trust has been told to improve its cancer services after the death of a 67-year-old woman whose treatment was delayed.

Retired history teacher and mother-of-two from Chelmsford, named in an ombudsman’s report as Mrs S, first went to her GP in January 2023 with uncomfortable abdominal bloating – but she died three months later with terminal ovarian cancer.

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