Overview
- A pre-inquest hearing was held on December 5 at Sheffield’s Medico Legal Centre.
- An assistant coroner scheduled a four-day inquest to start on March 2, with six witnesses to testify before a jury.
- Family members questioned whether the NHS was ready to manage the diagnosis and say they were told during treatment that she did not have rabies.
- Yvonne Ford, 59, became unwell at the end of May after a puppy scratch in Morocco and was treated at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield.
- She died in hospital on June 11, and her relatives say they want the inquest to clarify clinical decisions and communications.