The husband of a woman who died more than a year after an insect bite became infected has settled a case with clinicians who he said missed opportunities to escalate her treatment.<\/p>\n
Mandy Weaver, from Winnersh, died aged 48 in October 2018, having suffered with increasingly severe wounds after being bitten on the leg in summer 2017.<\/p>\n
Her husband Mark, now 54, said she had repeatedly attended the Westfield Road Surgery in Winnersh as her condition deteriorated.<\/p>\n
The surgery was approached to comment.<\/p>\n
A law firm that helped Mark bring a clinical negligence claim against some of the surgery’s clinicians said the case had been settled, but without any admission of liability or an apology. <\/p>\n
Within weeks of being bitten, Mandy’s wound had started to leak and ooze. <\/p>\n
Her husband said she had attended the surgery and a nurse diagnosed an infection, dressed her leg and prescribed antibiotics.<\/p>\n
Over the coming months, she attended the surgery repeatedly for treatment, but the wound never properly healed, despite periods of improvement, and soon both legs were infected.<\/p>\n
Mark said he became increasingly concerned and by January 2018 her legs were leaking so heavily that fluid would pool on the floor when she stood up.<\/p>\n
Just days before she was due to attend an appointment with a tissue viability nurse in October 2018, she was found collapsed at home. <\/p>\n
A coroner concluded she had died after deep vein thrombosis caused a pulmonary embolism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The husband of a woman who died more than a year after an insect bite became infected has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}