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Life-support error nurse 'should have spoken up'

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A camera, set up at a man's bedside because of concerns he was not receiving adequate medical care, has caught an agency nurse turning off his life-support machine. Health Correspondent Matthew Hill reports on how Jamie Merrett has been left with severe brain damage as a result of the mistake. Roswyn Hakesley-Brown, a trustee of the Patients' Association, comments on the incident.


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