FAULTY equipment at Liverpool’s Royal Hospital may have led to the death of a patient, the Daily Post can reveal.

An investigation is under way after a patient died during a procedure at Liverpool's main hospital trust.

The family of the unnamed patient have sought legal advice, after a medical device failed during treatment administered within The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen NHS Trust.

The Daily Post can also reveal that Whiston Hospital is “treating seriously” claims a patient died there after medical staff mistakenly gave her an overdose of sedatives.

Keith Farrell says a ward manager at Whiston Hospital told him his 79-year-old mother was put into a fatal coma after a prescription was misread.

She was given 40 milligrammes of drugs instead of 10 milligrammes, he claims.

The probe at Whiston comes just weeks after a coroner criticised protocols at the hospital following the death of a patient who was given a fatal overdose of Potassium Chloride.

Coroner Christopher Sumner said 91-year-old Edna Alker’s death “was a result of a preventable consequence of a necessary medical procedure” at Whiston.