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Hospital staff have admitted failings after a restaurateur died from a blood clot after having his foot amputated following cancer fears. Madoc Bellamy, who had ran the Punchinello and Woodborough Hall restaurants, may have survived had he been given a VTE (venous thromboembolism) risk assessment - which looks at risk of clots - sooner, an inquest heard. And medical staff at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) Trust failed to give the 54-year-old an anticoagulant, or blood thinner, prior...