The heartbroken family of a deaf, young mother who died less than 24 hours after being discharged from A&E have said the hospital’s apology ‘isn’t worth the paper it’s written on’.

Tanya McCartney, 25, was experiencing a high temperature, shortness of breath and a painful throat when her GP told her to go to A&E.

Medics at Chesterfield Royal Infirmary, in Derbyshire, discharged her with antibiotics on May 18, 2023.

The following day she was found dead at home.

A post-mortem examination revealed that the mother, who left behind her 11-month-old boy Marcus, had pneumonia – but this was undetected by the hospital.

Tanya’s devastated mother, Natasha Johnson, 53, is now urging people who are discharged from hospital despite still feeling very poorly to ‘ask for a second opinion’, because ‘

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