Teacher died from blood clot day after being discharged from hospital – report A primary school teacher died from an undiagnosed blood clot one day after being discharged from hospital, documents submitted to an inquest show.
A serious incident report, written by the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, found that, despite seeing four doctors at the hospital, an undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot in a large vein – most commonly in the leg, led to Ms Collins’ fatal heart attack.
Dena Collins, 28, died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Greenwich, London, on January 12 2023 from a heart attack caused by a blood clot, despite medics initially suspecting a clot may be behind her symptoms.
On January 11, Ms Collins visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital complaining of four days of leg pain, fever and diarrhoea.
Her father gave her CPR before an ambulance arrived and took her back to the same hospital where she died a couple of hours later.
