A woman studying to be a nurse was waiting for hours in agonizing pain in the A&E (ER) before dying. Zoe Bell passed on Christmas Eve 2022 at the age of 28, after taking extra shifts at hospitals in Buckinghamshire, UK to help finance the last stage of her studies. A coroner’s inquest has now led to new details about her death.
Bell, who was described as a “dedicated student,” had just finished her last 12-hour shift on December 18, 2022, before she began to suffer from a sore throat and struggled to get words out.
Her boyfriend, Phillip Ayres, told an inquest into her death that “it was not uncommon for her to be run down after a weekend of long shifts,” The Sun reported on Tuesday (October 1).
