News about John Ashcroft

An elderly cancer patient has told of his shock after receiving a call from his local GP informing him he had been mistakenly registered as dead. John Ashcroft was informed by his doctors in late July that he had been reported as 'deceased' on their system despite 'quite obviously' being alive. The 73-year-old, who is in remission for prostate cancer, tried to log in to his hospital records but he and his wife Susan were 'stumped' to see access had been denied as 'he didn't exist'. All his medical records and appointments had vanished which meant he had been unable to reorder his medication. The worried couple - who admitted to finding the situation extremely 'unnerving' - were then forced to wait two weeks for his medical records to be restored.