A CORONER will examine the actions of troubled ambulance provider Coperforma in the lead up to a patient’s death.

Laura Louise Moye, 25, from St Leonards, was receiving dialysis treatment at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, before she died from an undiagnosed cancer on August 18 last year .

A pre-inquest hearing at Brighton and Hove Coroner’s Court heard Miss Moye was dissatisfied with patient transport firm Coperforma which was contracted to take non-emergency patients to hospital.

The hearing also heard she had a history of refusing dialysis treatment.

Speaking at the hearing, East Sussex County Council social worker Julie Robinson said: “Coperforma would arrive with only one crew member, when she needed two to get her up the stairs outside her property. Or arrive too early and not return.

“She was really worried about not being picked up from the renal unit and being brought home.”

Emails regarding Coperforma between Mrs Robinson and Miss Moye and information provided by district nurses are due to be examined by the coroner.

An inquest was launched into her death as Miss Moye was subject to a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding Order (DoLS) six days before she died.

A statement from her GP, doctor Ed Johnson, of Silver Springs Medical Practice in St Leonards, explained she had complex medical needs after being born with spina bifida and required the removal of a kidney in 2001.

She started dialysis in 2015 but attended infrequently.

Non emergency ambulance services in Sussex are to be handed back to the NHS – in the form of South Central Ambulance Service.

Last month, the shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said High Weald Lewes and Havens Clinical Commissioning group (CCG) was wrong to have given the £60 million four year contract to patient transport firm Coperforma.

Thousands of patient journeys were missed or delayed last year by Coperforma.

The inquest will be heard on June 20.