Chief hits out at 'deficient' hospital care

But Stephen Dorrell, who also says 35-year-old Wendy Nock's death was avoidable, has told her father that the health committee cannot take up individual cases.

It is the latest blow for Harold Nock, of Birmingham New Road, Dudley, but he says he will not give up his campaign for "justice". He is suing the Dudley Group NHS Foundatin Trust over the death of Wendy, who had spina bifida and died from an intestinal obstruction in September 2009.

Black Country coroner Robin Balmain said at an inquest that there had been "consistent failing among different departments and a number of different staff." A report by General Medical Council investigator Neil Ineson said the care was "deficient".

And an indepdendent review concluded that, if a CT scan had been carried out, she would probably have survived.

Mr Nock, 64, and his wife Denise, 61, say no staff have been held to account. Now Mr Dorrell has told the couple: "The points that strike me most forcibly from your letter and the enclosed correspondence is that your daughter's death was avoidable and that the care she received while in hospital fell far short of what she had every right to expect."

Wendy died eight days after being admitted to Russells Hall Hospital. Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Paula Clark said: "The trust recognises that, at the time of Miss Nock's death, there were issues with the recording of fluid intake and output on some nursing documentation, which was unacceptable."

She said the coroner recorded a narrative verdict that Wendy Nock died from her medical conditions. "In addition to the coroner's inquest, Mr Nock raised Wendy's case with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the GMC, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the Information Commissioner," she added. "These organisations have all decided that no further action was required against either the trust or individual members of staff."