Young mum training to be a nurse died after 'serious omissions' in her care at hospital
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA young mum training to be a nurse died after 'serious omissions' in her care by hospital staff, an inquest has concluded. Jodie McCann, from Salford, had just enrolled to start a training course when she was admitted to King's Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, in March last year with acute pancreatitis.
A coroner heard Jodie, mum to four-year-old Freddie, died after a breathing tube became dislodged during her subsequent care at Queen's Hospital in Burton-upon-Trent.
She was just 22. After the inquest, hospital bosses apologised and said Jodie 'needed and deserved a far better standard of care than was provided to her'. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community The student nurse, who moved to live in Newark, Nottinghamshire, had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit from King's Mill on March 22, 2022, after suffering a cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment for gallstone pancreatitis, reports Nottinghamshire Live.
Presiding over the inquest at Nottingham Council House, coroner Dr Elizabeth Didcock told the hearing: "She remained critically ill, but she was improving." It was a 'reasonable decision', Dr Didcock told the hearing, to extubate Jodie on March 28.
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