A health board has been ordered to apologise after leaving a paralysed woman without food or water for 20 hours, in one of a series of errors in her treatment.

Both Shetland Health Board and the Scottish Ambulance Service were criticised by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman over the treatment of the woman, referred to as Mrs C, who had a stroke in 2004 which left her paralysed and unable to speak or swallow.

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