Louise Slater, coroner for South Yorkshire East, has raised the issue with the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust following the death of Anne Hawkes on the 15th of July 2023, as a consequence of multi-organ dysfunction due to an infected hip joint. Ms Slater concluded that the infection occurred due to surgical wound breakdown because of pressure caused by fluid overload as a result of ‘poorly managed’ cardiac failure. The coroner ruled that a ‘lack of communication’ between services within the... Read this story
