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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

'We deeply miss our mother': Woman died after hospital's failures raised risks

Judith Flynn with her youngest daughter, Dr Joanne Lane. Picture supplied

A cognitively impaired woman who died after falling in hospital was at an increased risk because various safeguards were not in place, including her family not being told about her deteriorating condition, a coroner has found.

Judith Gaye Flynn, 72, died at the Canberra Hospital in January 2019 after she suffered a head injury from a bed fall on the general medicine ward.

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