A law student who died after a series of remote consultations with doctors and nurses should have had an urgent face-to-face appointment after his fourth and final contact, a GP expert has told a coroner.
Musician David Nash, 26, had four phone consultations with a GP practice over a 19-day period in October and November 2020, including one on November 2 where he was told by a nurse 'you sound like you're feeling a bit sorry for yourself'. David's condition deteriorated drastically, however, and he was taken to hospital by ambulance but died two days later on November 4.
The inquest in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, heard that he had developed mastoiditis in his ear which caused an abscess on his brain, leading to his death. Mr Nash’s parents, Andrew and Anne Nash, from Nantwich, have campaigned to find out whether the mastoiditis would have been identified and easily treated with antibiotics if their son had undergone a face-to-face examination at his first appointment at the Burley Park Medical Centre on October 14, 2020, or during the subsequent phone consultations.
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