Did hospital care blunders lead to mother’s death?

A woman who died after routine surgery at a privately run hospital was ‘sitting up in bed laughing with friends’ shortly before the procedure, an inquest heard today (weds). Carmel Bloom, 54, died following a kidney stone operation at the former Bupa-run Roding Hospital in Ilford, east London, in August 2002. The first inquest took place a year after her death, in 2003, ruling the health controller died of natural causes. That verdict was quashed in 2004 ahead of a…