NHS board apologises after body wrongly released for cremation

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By Katrine Bussey, PA

NHS bosses have launched a full investigation and issued an apology after a body was wrongly released from a hospital mortuary to the undertakers – with the error only discovered after cremation had taken place.

As a result of the blunder, a service organised by one family to remember their loved one saw the wrong body cremated.