Kidney stone death patient should not have been moved

A woman who died after routine surgery ‘was not in a condition to be transferred’ when she was rushed to an emergency unit following the operation, an inquest heard. Carmel Bloom, 54, suffered a heart attack and brain damage following a kidney stone operation at the former Bupa-run Roding Hospital in Ilford, east London, in August 2002. An ambulance was called to transfer Mrs Bloom to a high dependency unit at Whipps Cross Hospital when she went into septic shock…