Emily Chesterton, 30, died on October 31 last year after suffering a cardiac arrest.
The heartbroken parents of a young actress say she died despite having twice went to a doctor's surgery but not seen by a GP.
Her calf pain was misdiagnosed as a sprain, and her shortness of breath was mistaken for long covid and anxiety, for which she was prescribed medication to slow her heart.Emily, who was originally from Boothstown in Salford, had moved to London to pursue her career, alongside her boyfriend, just before the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The couple's MP, Barbara Keeley, who represents Worsley and Eccles South ward, raised issue during a debate in parliament last week. She urged the government to act quickly to regulate physician associates in the wake of Emily's death. On November 7 she made another appointment and saw the same physician associate who suggested her breathlessness was due to anxiety and long covid - and so prescribed propranolol for Emily's anxiety.
Staff at the A&E department at Whittington Hospital, where Emily died, told the family that the propranolol tablet 'definitely wouldn’t have helped' Emily’s condition. Staff had to give her an antidote to the drug. Emily's parents say they are extremely worried about a new government scheme which sets out plans to employ three times as many physician associates across the NHS.
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