Woman's tragic death from blood clot 'could have been avoided', says coroner

70-YEAR-OLD VISITED HER GP AND WAS ATTENDED BY PARAMEDICS MULTIPLE TIMES

- By SOFIE JACKSON

A WOMAN tragically died from complications of a blood clot more than a month after she first visited her GP with symptoms.

Linda Sharp died when the undiagnosed clot in her leg broke away and blocked an artery in her lungs.

The 70-year-old was attended to at her home by Yorkshire Ambulance Service on four separate occasions in the three weeks prior to her death on November 21, 2023. By the time of the final call out, she had suffered a heart attack and could not be resuscitated, the coroner said.

Professor Paul Marks, Senior Coroner for Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, said the inquest into Ms Sharp's death found she would likely not have died if she had been treated with anticoagulants and blood thinners.

He has now written to the Royal College of General Practitioners, urging for a review of how deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolus are diagnosed.

Ms Sharp visited her GP 35 days before she died, on October 17, complaining of swelling in her right leg.