Health

GP practice should have referred patient for further tests

A woman claimed that if her late husband’s weight loss been investigated properly his cancer may have been detected sooner. 

We found it was a ‘significant failure in care and treatment’ that his GP didn’t send him for further diagnostic treatment.

Category
Health & Social Care
Organisation
GP
Decision
Upheld
Case Reference
202005762
Issue Date
Format
  • ODT
  • PDF

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