A widow told an inquest she was "met with a brick wall" while trying to fight for her husband to stay in hospital weeks before his death.

Richard Taylor died two weeks after being discharged from hospital, where he was being treated for a range of complex conditions. He was 67.

He died shortly after being admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, but two weeks earlier was discharged from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

An inquest into his death heard that he was sent home after a multi-disciplinary team at the hospital decided he would be at greater risk staying in hospital - due to being "immunocompromised".

But his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, questioned the decision and was keen for him to remain in hospital for further treatment.

She told Norfolk Coroner's Court: "I fought and fought for him to stay in hospital but was met with a brick wall.

"Not once was I asked what he would be going home to and how he would cope - the way we were treated was horrendous."

But hospital staff told the court the decision was made because Mr Taylor did not require treatment which could only be given in hospital - such as the use of an IV drip - and that the longer he stayed the more at risk he was of infection.

Meanwhile, the court heard there were delays in receiving results of a test for a fungal infection he had developed - which arrived after he had been discharged.

He died on August 27, 2022. 

Area coroner Samantha Goward gave a narrative conclusion, which stated he died due to an abscess and a fungal infection which developed in a cavity on his lung.

She added: "It is not possible to say if earlier diagnosis [of the fungal infection] would have altered the outcome and it is not clear how he would have responded to medication."