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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucinda Cameron

No fatal accident inquiry into death of new mother who ‘got lost in hospital’

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The family of a new mother who died after she is believed to have got lost and collapsed as she returned to her hospital ward have said she would not have died if “basic, common sense measures” had been in place.

The Crown Office has announced that a fatal accident inquiry will not be held into the death of Amanda Cox, 34, who was found unresponsive in a stairwell at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) and died on December 10 2018.

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