A daughter "kissed her mother goodbye" before being told she was actually still alive and hospital staff had got the wrong body, it has been revealed
Liz Page's mother, Phyllis Lilley, 94, was admitted to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester after a stroke last year.
The hospital, which has apologised, called to say she had passed away during the night.
Mrs Page told The Sun it did not enter her mind that the body would not have been her mother.
Speaking to BBC News, she said:
"I last saw my mum with an oxygen mask over her mouth in A&E, [her death] was the news I was expecting.
"My husband took me about an hour or so later. We were shown a lady in a cubicle, she looked like my mum looked when she'd been asleep in her chair, with her mouth open and her nose in the air, and her hair stuck to her forehead.
"I just said simply 'goodbye' and kissed her forehead."
Mrs Page returned home with her husband to Charminster, near Dorchester, and began making funeral arrangements until the hospital rang up later that day to say there had been a mistake and her mother was still alive.
The patient's are generally covered by a sheet in this instance so only her head would have been visible. It's an easy mistake to make on her behalf but on the hospitals? The patient's name should have been over the bed space, files with that patient and all of their belongings, it is borderline impossible to completely mix up a patient.
