N. Bristol NHS: Grieving husband calls for full inquiry after mother-of-two, 49, dies of cervical cancer - despite being given the all-clear SIX times

[Sly Saint]

A dying nurse recorded a devastating final message condemning health chiefs for blunders that cost her life.

Julie O’Connor, who worked for the NHS for 13 years, was mistakenly told six times that she did not have cervical cancer. In the heartbreaking video, the 49-year-old sits propped up in her hospice bed and is able only to whisper.

Mrs O’Connor died just three days after filming the video. She was assured she did not have cervical cancer following a smear test, biopsies and numerous clinical examinations. It was only when she went to see a private consultant three years after the original missed diagnosis that she learned the truth.
By then it was terminal. She died last week at St Peter’s Hospice in Bristol.

Her family, who believe other cases of cancer in women may have been missed, are campaigning for an independent review into cervical smear screening at Southmead Hospital, which is run by North Bristol NHS Trust.

‘It’s been so frustrating just to get the trust to listen. It has just felt like they are in denial.

‘It was the arrogance of the board of directors which did upset Julie as well, the pointing the finger at the GP and at everyone else.’

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