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The family of a 'dedicated and compassionate' nurse who died three days after she was sent home from a hospital with a 'diagnosis of indigestion' say she was 'let down' by the NHS in her hour of need.

Mum Paula Ivers - described by her sister as a 'fierce advocate and defender of the NHS' - was found collapsed on the floor of her bedroom by her young daughter at their home in Denton , Tameside, and later pronounced dead.

An inquest into the 47 year-old's death heard she attended Tameside Hospital A&E three days earlier with 'horrendous' chest pain she described as 'worse than childbirth', but was sent home after having been 'reassured' it was not 'coming from the heart'.

It was later confirmed a tear in the main artery of the body - the aorta - resulted in a cardiac

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