A London GP surgery where a Salford woman's fatal blood clot was misdiagnosed as long Covid and anxiety has been placed under inspection, health bosses have confirmed.
Emily Chesterton was a patient at The Vale Practice in Crouch End after moving to London from Boothstown to pursue an acting career.
She was just 30 years old when she suffered a cardiac arrest, following a pulmonary embolism, having visited the GP practice on two occasions complaining of calf pain and shortness of breath.
The young actor was misdiagnosed after being seen by a physician's associate at the practice. An inquest earlier this year concluded that the physician associate should have sent Emily to a hospital emergency unit, and that if she had been treated, likely would have survived. READ MORE: Manchester 'Beast' filed down his teeth so that he could kill again READ MORE: The Manchester sweetshop 'jigsaw' killer...
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