BARNSLEY Hospital has this week apologised to the parents of a disabled man who died after a medical negligence claim was settled out of court.
Glen Bonson was 26 when he died in January 2013. Medics failed to recognise that the life-saving 'shunt' he was fitted with as a child was not working properly.
Following an inquest the coroner wrote to the hospital calling for action to be taken to prevent similar deaths in the future, and the hospital has now paid compensation to the family - but until this week had never apologised.
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper, dated June 26. **
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