Poor communication blamed for Claire Allnutt's death Poor communication between doctors and nurses has been blamed for the death of a 28-year-old woman, who died when her catheter became infected. Claire Allnutt was admitted to Luton and Dunstable Hospital in November and was treated for a flesh-eating disease. She died on 29 January, five days after it was noticed that her catheter needed replacing. Coroner Thomas Osborne said she developed septicaemia in the three days before the catheter was taken out. Recording a narrative verdict, he told the court in Ampthill that there was "a failure in the system of observation, monitoring and documentation of […]