Inquest finds preventative medication gap contributed to Lady Branson's death

In the quiet corridors of a private Chelsea hospital, an 80-year-old woman at well-documented risk of blood clots spent five days without the standard medication that might have kept her alive. The inquest into Lady Joan Branson's death has placed her passing within a story as old as medicine itself — the gap between what is known and what is done, between risk identified and precaution taken. A coroner has now formally recorded that this gap, not malice or neglect, but a failure of system and communication, likely cost her life.