A woman died from a heart condition a couple of days after a paramedic told her to take paracetamol for chest pains.
Carol Wilson had been suffering from chest pains for a few days. Her husband Peter called 111 on January 1, 2015.
A paramedic came to the couple’s home in Sheffield around 7am. But instead of giving her a heart scan or taking her to hospital, they told her to take paracetamol.
Seventy-year-old Carol Wilson, who had three sons, died in her sleep two days later.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust has apologised for the death of Carol Wilson and admitted that the death could have been avoided.
Medical negligence lawyers at Irwin Mitchell found that the paramedic had failed to carry out an electrocardiogram (ECG) scan which would have shown abnormalities.
