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Cancer patient suffered 'undignified' final hours after station fall, inquest hears

Priscilla Tropp's family call for review of railway station's emergency response protocol, after failure to locate defibrillator or contact police

April 23, 2019 16:28
Priscilla Tropp
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A cancer patient who died after falling down train station stairs suffered “undignified” treatment in her final hours after failings by “ill-equipped and insufficiently-trained” staff, her family have argued.

Priscilla Tropp, 76, died at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, North London, on November 27 last year.

At an inquest into her death on Tuesday, senior North London coroner Andrew Walker ruled it was a result of the fall she suffered hours earlier at Mill Hill Broadway station, after returning from a hospital appointment in central London.

Mrs Tropp, a member of Edgware United Synagogue, suffered from a rare form of Leukaemia. A post-mortem report found she had suffered a ruptured spleen, internal bleeding and a cardiac arrest.