A disabled man who ‘made the best of his life’ died just hours after A&E doctors let him leave without blood tests or a proper diagnosis.
Billy Longshaw, from Heaton Norris in Stockport, died on March 7 last year, less than 24 hours after being released from an emergency department in Swindon. The 22-year-old, who was born with D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, a rare condition that causes progressive damage to the brain and affects muscle tone, speech, vision and memory, went to the Great Western Hospital after having sudden abdominal pain and vomiting on a car journey.
Billy, who had 'significant learning difficulties', was assessed by a junior doctor in A&E, who found everything to be normal. In fact, Billy was suffering with ‘sigmoid volvulus’ - a twisted intestine which would quickly turn fatal.
