Missed chance to save Leeds student after call to GP practice, coroner finds

David Nash may have had surgery sooner had he been directed in remote consultation to seek face-to-face careA 26-year-old law student who died after having four remote GP consultations probably would have lived if he had been given a face-to-face appointment after the last one, a coroner has ruled.The failure to arrange an in-person examination of David Nash when he complained to an advanced nurse practitioner of fever, neck stiffness and night-time headaches was a “missed opportunity”, the assistant coroner Abigail Combes told Wakefield coroner’s court on Friday.