Hospital failed to tell patient he was terminally ill, ombudsman finds

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By Jane Kirkby and Claudia Tanner

A hospital was found to have committed serious failures in communicating a terminal diagnosis to a patient.

Doctors at the Countess of Chester Hospital did not tell father-of-seven William Chapman about his deadly pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis, a Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) investigation determined.