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20
Dec 2023
A Ripon family has called for lessons to be learned after a mother died from sepsis at Harrogate District Hospital.
Angela Laybourn was admitted to the hospital on January 17, 2022, after suffering from lack of appetite and dehydration for around a week.
Blood tests showed she had metabolic acidosis – a build-up of acid in the body. However, this was not documented when she was assessed on a ward, an NHS investigation found.
Ms Laybourn was wrongly sent home three days after being admitted. However, she was readmitted to Harrogate hospital on January 22. She was incoherent and disorientated.
Further blood tests indicating metabolic acidosis weren’t acted upon. She died aged 62 in the early hours of January 24.
Following Angela’s death, husband David, instructed medical negligence lawyers at Irwin Mitchell to investigate his wife’s care under Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust.
David, aged 64, has now joined his legal team at Irwin Mitchell in calling for lessons to be learned.
Megan Walker, the specialist medical negligence lawyer at Irwin Mitchell representing David, said:
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