9-5 stroke unit risking lives, warns coroner

STROKE patients are at risk of dying due to some services only being available between 9am and 5pm, an assistant coroner has warned.

- By Jane Kirby

Thomas Crookes sounded the alarm in a prevention of future deaths report after highlighting the lack of an out-of-hours service at the inquest of Keith Reynolds, who died from a stroke last year.

Mr Reynolds had a history of heart disease and went to hospital last October with symptoms of unstable angina requiring an expedited coronary artery bypass and mitral valve repair, the report said.

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