Hospital staff missed signs of the fatal condition pneumonia when 25-year-old Tanya McCartney went to hospital on GP's orders after believing she had just caught a cold from her son

A 25-year-old mum said that going to hospital was a 'waste of time' just hours before she died from a condition that doctors missed.

Tanya McCartney had symptoms including a high temperature, painful throat, and shortness of breath, and believed that she had caught a cold from her 11-month-old son Marcus. But despite this, her GP advised her to go to hospital. On May 18 2023 Tanya was sent home by staff at Chesterfield Royal Infirmary after attending at the A&E, and given oral antibiotics.

However, staff at the hospital failed to spot symptoms of a deadly condition that Tanya had. When she got home, trai

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