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A grandad died after hospital staff mistakenly gave him another patient’s medicine - despite him not being prescribed any drugs.

Raymond Stott was allergic to the antibiotic amoxicillin, but he was given the drug in error and died in hospital, despite being given adrenaline in a bid to reverse the blunder.

Dad-of-four and grandad-of-15 Raymond was originally admitted to hospital in March after suffering a heart attack at his home.

He went into cardiac arrest again when he got to hospital and was taken to the Intensive Care Unit, where he stayed for 21 days before being moved to a ward.

Raymond, who worked as a plasterer, had been diagnosed with emphysema and had a tracheostomy to help him breathe.

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He was only prescribed painkillers for back pain and was not on any other medication. He was being fed through a tube, which he pulled out of himself on April 3.

He was due to have the tube reinserted on April 4, but early that morning his children Jackie, Brian, Christopher and Jennipher were summoned to St James’ Hospital in Leeds, but Raymond had already died before they arrived.

Soon afterwards, they were told that a staff member had mistakenly given their dad the antibiotic, which was meant for another patient and which Raymond was allergic to.

His daughter Jackie, 42, said: “When we found out it was not natural, we were absolutely devastated. We are so upset that a mistake has happened and it has taken our father. He was getting better, but he was taken through an error.

“It if had been natural, we could say that he couldn’t go on any more. But he was fighting. He was a lovely person, very kind and everyone used to call him Uncle Ray.”

Raymond’s death is being investigated by the Coroner.

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Jackie described the moment the doctor broke the news.

She said: “We kept asking ‘Is anyone going to tell us?’ Nobody was speaking to us.

"Eventually we saw a doctor, who said the nurse had cannulated my father.

"She had the medication in her pocket ready to give to the next patient, but she accidentally gave to my father.

“When she realised she had given the wrong medication, she told somebody straight away.

"The crash team were called and they tried to give him two adrenaline shots, but he passed away.”

She and her siblings Brian, 36, Christopher, 33, and Jennipher, 29, were “very upset and angry” at the news.

Raymond’s eldest child said: “We did not know how to handle it. We have never been in this situation before where someone’s been taken by mistake.”

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She said the hospital have only contacted the family once since her father’s death.

Dr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer for Leeds Teaching Hospitals, said they were also investigating.

“I’d like to express my sincere condolences and apologies to Raymond’s family,” she said. “We will keep in contact with them to discuss the progress of our investigation, the findings when it is completed and to answer any questions they may have.”

Jackie described her dad as a family man, who was very happy with his growing number of grandchildren.

“Sometimes he used to moan ‘Oh, not another one’. My youngest brother and my sister keep having them. They have six each and there’s one on the way.

“But as long as another was on the way, he was happy. He used to give them money for newborns.”