Scot suffered 'horrible' death from brain tumour after doctors failed to read scans properly
A much-loved pensioner suffered a "horrific" death from an operable brain tumour after doctors failed to properly monitor her scan results, her husband has said.
Despite regular MRI scans showing the tumour was growing and was pushing her brain to one side, she was told that it was not growing and was not offered surgery to remove it until May 2015. The couple had met in 1971, before getting married in 1979 and moving to Blackpool to start a family which includes three children, a granddaughter and a one year-old great granddaughter whom Mrs Ashford never got to meet.
Ombudsman Rob Behrens said: "This tragic case highlights why we have been calling for imaging improvements to be treated as an urgent issue of patient safety. The Ombudsman's 2021 report on NHS imaging highlighted repeated failings such as those found in Mrs Ashford's case. Mr Ashford added: "Thanks to the Ombudsman's meticulous report, new rules regarding the monitoring of patients have been implemented by the hospital to ensure that this cannot happen again to anyone else. My wife suffered horribly from the effects of the tumour for more than four years, and it was obvious to the family and myself when reading the scan reports that the monitoring of her tumour was highly suspect.
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