Barry Loxston
12 Nov 2025 · Coroner Fiona Wilcox · Inner West London
The coroner's concerns
1. patient handling causing harm
“poor patient handling and allowing patients to lie for hours in their own excrement is detrimental to patient wellbeing and may contribute to deaths”
2. drug maladministration
“leaving medication with patients for them to take in their own time rather than supervise the taking of medication by the patient causes drug maladministration issues that may cause or contribute to deaths of patents”
3. investigation failure
“lack of investigation of the matter outlined in 2 increases the risk to patients of the concern outlined in 2”
4. blood test omission
“all relevant blood tests, including albumin level since low albumin may be associated with significant post operative complication risk, are not reviewed prior to surgery and considered as part of the risk/benefit analysis of surgery and the consenting process”
5. lack of suitability monitoring
“there is no system mandating suitability to remain on the transplant list by the local nephrologist at each nephrology review”
6. communication breakdown
“there is no system recommending direct contact with the local on call nephrology team by the transplant team to check whether there are clinically relevant matters in relation to the patient and their suitability for transplant that the local team are aware of and the transplant team are not, such as active other chronic illness or abnormal test results”