NHS staff were too slow to treat man who rang 999 from his hospital bed, coroner rules

Evan Nathan Smith ‘would not have died if hospital workers had recognised sickle cell disease’A patient experiencing a sickle cell crisis who rang 999 from his hospital bed after being denied oxygen would not have died if medical staff had recognised his symptoms and treated him sooner, a coroner has concluded.Evan Nathan Smith, 21, from Walthamstow in east London, died in April 2019 in hospital after developing sepsis after a procedure to remove a gallbladder stent a week earlier. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/06/nhs-staff-were-too-slow-to-treat-man-who-rang-999-from-his-hospital-bed-coroner-rules #nhs #health #society #london #uk_news #hospitals