Lack of medication contributed to death of Richard Branson’s wife – inquestLady Joan Branson, 80, died at the private Lister Hospital in Chelsea after being admitted following a fall on Necker Island.Sir Richard Branson with his wife Joan, and daughter Holly arriving at The Odeon Leicester Square, London, for the UK premiere of Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (Yui Mok/PA)PA ArchiveSam Hall2 minutes ago
A private hospital’s failure to provide preventative medication contributed to the death of Sir Richard Branson’s wife, an inquest has concluded.
Lady Joan Branson, 80, died on November 24 after suffering a cardiac arrest at the private Lister Hospital in Chelsea, west London, which is owned and operated by HCA Healthcare.
Westminster Coroner’s Court heard on Wednesday that she died after suffering a pulmonary embolism, a sudden, dangerous blockage in a lung artery, resulting from deep vein thrombosis.
The virtual inquest heard that Lady Joan was admitted to the hospital on November 17 after a fall weeks earlier on Necker Island – a private luxury retreat in the Caribbean’s British Virgin Islands owned by her billionaire husband.
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Professor Fiona Wilcox, senior coroner for Inner West London, said Lady Joan did not receive prophylactic anticoagulants at the hospital despite a “very high risk of developing deep vein thrombosis”.
Giving her conclusion, the coroner said: “I do find her death would have likely been prevented and the lack of anticoagulation did cause or contribute to her death probably.”
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