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Coroner: Patient overdosed after pharmacy ‘welfare concern’ missed

 
• By Kate Bowie

A coroner has warned that the lack of “communication between primary and secondary care” may lead to the “early death” of more patients, after an NHS trust was not made aware of a pharmacy’s warning.

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"GPimhs was not aware of the welfare concern raised by the pharmacy”
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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