Fund improved diagnosis in health care settings

Closed 56 signatures

What the petition asks

We believe many hospitals are failing to provide a high enough standard of care to their patients when diagnosing them. Some patients are diagnosed too late or are mis-diagnosed and we believe that hospitals and care settings would be able to limit these errors with more funding and resources.

My mum had a fall in 2020 and was taken to hospital. Just 16 days later we were told they had found 3 brain lesions which were cancerous, with a life expectancy of weeks to a short few months, and placed in a care home. November 2022 an MRI scan showed she had brain damage in both frontal lobes and not cancer. Sadly mum passed away 3 days later. 2 years of steroids she shouldn’t have been on caused muscle weakness and she became bed bound, causing pressure on her heart until it stopped.

Timeline

10 Feb 2023	Petition opened for signatures
10 Aug 2023	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 56

Status Closed

Department Department of Health and Social Care

Opened 10 Feb 2023

Closed 10 Aug 2023

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