Stanley Oliver
16 Jul 2015 · Coroner Alan Walsh · Manchester (West)
The coroner's concerns
1. unavailability of GI Radiologists out of hours
“There was no on call rota for a GI Radiologist to perform a percutaneous cholecystostomy out of hours and particularly over a weekend”
2. risk to life from inability to perform percutaneous cholecystostomy out of hours
“availability of a GI Radiologist to perform a percutaneous cholecystostomy was critical to the management of a patient and he raised concerns that there would be a risk to life if a percutaneous cholecystostomy could not be performed out of hours”
3. national shortage of out of hours GI Radiologists
“the unavailability of GI Radiologists was not limited to Salford but was a_ national problem in that there were very few out of hours on call rotas for GI Radiologists in hospitals in the United Kingdom”