Autistic boy, 4, died after hospital doctors couldn't see GP notes, coroner warns

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By Claudia Tanner

A coroner has issued an urgent warning that lives are at risk because hospital doctors cannot access patients' GP records electronically, following an inquest into the death of a four-year-old boy with autism.

Akhona Moyo died from complications from a brain tumour at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.