'I was left in agony after doctors said I was too heavy for an operation - but they'd recorded the wrong weight'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A woman was kicked off the waiting list for an operation - after hospital staff mistakenly recorded her weight as 40 kilograms heavier than she was.

Jennifer Newby had already been waiting for surgery for more than a year since she was first crippled by what doctors believed to be a painful ovarian cyst.

The 29-year-old, who had been on powerful medications for months, had to stop work as a carer because of the pain and could barely leave the house, she says.

During a pre-op, Jennifer was told her BMI was too high to go ahead with the mass removal and she was told she had been taken off the waiting list.