Today’s edition of the Plymouth Herald includes an editorial entitled, “We demand reassurance this can never happen again“. Following what today’s online edition of the Western Morning News describes as a “serious drug error“, “when a nurse gave him an injection of a penicillin-based drug to which he was allergic he suffered a massive reaction. His daughter, Kim Tremaine, described her shock at how his head swelled and turned bright red. Three days later Mr Dudding was dead.”
Oliver Colvile, Conservative MP for Sutton and Devonport, is calling for a review into the way Derriford Hospital handled John Dudding’s treatment.
Rory Smith, a partner at Enigma Solicitors, who are representing the family, said: “The case raises issues which the family believes are of wider public concern regarding the standards of care being provided.”
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