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A hospital has reportedly apologised after a daughter was told her mum was dead and kissed her goodbye - only to be told seven hours later it was the wrong body

Liz Page, 61 said she was too upset to notice the mistake at the time and only found out about the blunder when staff said her mum Phyllis Lilley, 94, was actually alive and on another part of the ward, according to The Sun.

Liz said: " I know it sounds ridiculous that we didn't realise it was the wrong body. When you're told your mum has died and you're shown into a room, it just doesn't enter your mind that it won't be her."

Liz added: “I couldn’t believe it. I was angry and delighted at the same time.”

“They said the woman who died had a similar name and they pulled out the wrong file.”

Bosses at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester apologised in a letter and admitted checks had not been carried out, it was reported.

In January a nurse at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust mistakenly told a man his father had died — and the family of Tory MEP Philip Bradbourn cremated a stranger after Birmingham’s Good Hope Hospital mixed up the bodies.