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Evening Standard
Health
Katrine Bussey

NHS board apologises after ‘wrongful release’ of body discovered after cremation

Bosses at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are investigating the wrongful release of a body from the mortuary at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow (Andrew Milligan/PA) -

NHS bosses have launched a full investigation and issued an apology after a body was wrongly released from a hospital mortuary to the undertakers – with the error only discovered after cremation had taken place.

As a result of the blunder, a service organised by one family to remember their loved one saw the wrong body cremated.

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