Independent medical specialists said she should have been offered surgery three years earlier.
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.Service Ombudsman has found that Glasgow-born May Ashford, who was 71 when she died in 2015, was not offered surgery until it was too late as medical staff failed to monitor her scan results properly and did not report significant findings.
Independent medical specialists told the Ombudsman that Mrs Ashford should have been offered surgery three years earlier. Mr Ashford said his wife suffered from depression and “that created problems but she was a nice and kind person” who was “very caring”.He said: “When they offered her the operation in early March 2015, she was confused. She didn’t want the operation.
Concerns about his wife’s care led Mr Ashford to lodge a complaint with the Ombudsman who says the case emphasises the need for urgent improvements to imaging practices in the NHS.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 sooner we see changes made, the fewer people we will see harmed by these entirely avoidable failings.” The PHSO says there has been an effort across the NHS to implement the Ombudsman’s recommendations since then but progress has been slow.
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