Investigation reports

The family of a woman who died from lung cancer said that her GP Practice left her without guidance or support following her discharge from hospital. We partially upheld the complaint.

We asked a GP practice to apologise after we found that despite a woman’s history of skin cancer it did not urgently refer her to a dermatologist.

A woman questioned whether a GP Practice missed opportunities to pick up on identify her late mother’s blocked intestine.  We found no evidence of failures by the Practice.

We found that a GP practice gave a complainant the appropriate medication and took other measures to help ease her back pain.