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| Coventry Hospital 'sent home' MP's dying father | Coventry Hospital 'sent home' MP's dying father |
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| An MP has told how his father "died in my arms" after being sent home due to a shortage of hospital beds. | An MP has told how his father "died in my arms" after being sent home due to a shortage of hospital beds. |
| Toby Perkins told a Commons debate on the NHS his father went to University Hospital Coventry in July 2016 suffering from "extreme pain". | |
| He had symptoms of an aneurysm but was sent home after five hours in A&E, the Chesterfield MP said. His father died four days later. | He had symptoms of an aneurysm but was sent home after five hours in A&E, the Chesterfield MP said. His father died four days later. |
| The trust running the hospital said he should not have been discharged. | The trust running the hospital said he should not have been discharged. |
| Latest reaction, plus more Coventry stories | Latest reaction, plus more Coventry stories |
| Mr Perkins' father had suffered a near-fatal aneurysm three years earlier while on holiday in Germany. | Mr Perkins' father had suffered a near-fatal aneurysm three years earlier while on holiday in Germany. |
| He added he was "ashamed to say that I'm grateful" his father had the aneurysm abroad, as "the quality of the emergency care he received in Munich saved his life". | He added he was "ashamed to say that I'm grateful" his father had the aneurysm abroad, as "the quality of the emergency care he received in Munich saved his life". |
| "I regret the same could not be said of our NHS," he added. | "I regret the same could not be said of our NHS," he added. |
| Mr Perkins told ministers the registrar who saw his father commented it had been a "non-stop afternoon" and asked his father whether he minded going home. | Mr Perkins told ministers the registrar who saw his father commented it had been a "non-stop afternoon" and asked his father whether he minded going home. |
| 'Midst of a crisis' | 'Midst of a crisis' |
| "He said he had sent home five people who should have been in hospital because they were not enough beds. | "He said he had sent home five people who should have been in hospital because they were not enough beds. |
| "These pressures and these life and death decisions are not unique to that registrar, or to that hospital." | "These pressures and these life and death decisions are not unique to that registrar, or to that hospital." |
| The NHS and social care is in the midst of a crisis that leaves the elderly and disabled isolated and struggling to cope, and "means people being sent home from A&E to die", Mr Perkins said. | The NHS and social care is in the midst of a crisis that leaves the elderly and disabled isolated and struggling to cope, and "means people being sent home from A&E to die", Mr Perkins said. |
| Apologising for "distress caused", a spokesman for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust said "although the inquest found [Mr Perkins' father] died of natural causes, we are clear that he should not have been discharged without a scan" for a suspected aneurysm. | Apologising for "distress caused", a spokesman for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust said "although the inquest found [Mr Perkins' father] died of natural causes, we are clear that he should not have been discharged without a scan" for a suspected aneurysm. |
| Practice, he said, had changed so that scans for suspected aneurysms were standard. | Practice, he said, had changed so that scans for suspected aneurysms were standard. |