Hospice carer mother who died from cancer was 'failed by the system'
Grieving daughters say their hospice carer mother who died from cancer after struggling to arrange an in-person GP appointment was 'failed by the system' Gill Dutton, 65, asked for her GP's advice after she developed a persistent cough But the carer was only offered brief telephone consultations where concerns were dismissed Six months later, scans revealed that she had developed stage four lung cancer She was given three years to live but died after picking up chest infection in July Her daughters say the grandmother-of-three was ‘failed by the system’
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A hospice carer who died from cancer after struggling to arrange a face-to-face GP appointment was ‘failed by the system’, say her grieving daughters.
Gill Dutton, 65, devoted ten years of her life providing end-of-life care to cancer patients at St Giles Hospice in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
But when she developed a persistent cough at the start of the pandemic, the grandmother of three was only offered brief telephone consultations.
Her GP dismissed her cough in her first appointment in April last year, saying that it was
