Hospital failings led to woman’s death after weight loss surgery, coroner says

Susan Evans not seen by specialist at the Queen Alexandra in Portsmouth despite complications and contracted sepsis

Failings at a hospital contributed to the death of a 55-year-old woman who suffered abdominal sepsis after weight loss surgery at the time of a junior doctors' strike, a coroner has said.

Susan Evans returned to Queen Alexandra hospital in Portsmouth, Hampshire, with stomach pains two days after undergoing elective gastric bypass surgery.