A woman was taken off the waiting list for an operation - after hospital staff mistakenly recorded her weight as 40 kilograms heavier than she was.
Jennifer Newby had already been waiting for surgery for more than a year since she was first crippled by what doctors believed to be a painful ovarian cyst. The 29-year-old, who had been on powerful medications for months, had to stop work as a carer because of the pain and could barely leave the house, she says.
During a pre-op, Jennifer was told her BMI was too high to go ahead with the mass removal and that she had been taken off the waiting list as a result. After insisting on speaking to a doctor in person, the medics realised they had recorded Jennifer's weight incorrectly.
