Out of court settlement for family whose father died after health professionals misdiagnosed his stroke three times

Father died after stroke was missed three times
article in the Telegraph

Extract:

"Jeffery Wingrove, 48, died in hospital less than 48 hours after collapsing at home with severe vomiting and crippling headaches in December 2006.

His wife Isabelle, 52, rang her out-of-hours GP service run by Primecare, a privately contracted firm, but they twice refused to make a home visit.

Claiming he did not qualify as he was not elderly, they instead offered to fax a prescription for pain killers to her local pharmacy for her to collect.

Paramedics were called as his condition worsened but they misdiagnosed Jeffery with severe vertigo and gave him paracetamol.

By the next day Mr Wingrove was in so much pain he was rushed to hospital by ambulance where a scan revealed that part of his brain had been severely damaged by a stroke. Doctors attempted surgery but he died the following morning."

Medics set far too much store by painkillers. - How could anyone think that severe vomiting would be helped by taking paracetamol?