A 15-year-old schoolboy collapsed and died while playing football after wrongly being diagnosed with asthma by medics with a 'lack of curiosity' an inquest has heard.
'Loved' Jake Lawler, 15, was diagnosed with the common respiratory condition after he complained of 'breathlessness' to his GP, but he actually had a rare genetic heart condition.
Jake collapsed and died during a game at Ashton on Mersey School in Sale, Trafford, on November 5 last year.
In the weeks before his 'tragic' death, he was taken to hospital after he passed out during a sports game - but was discharged by medics who failed to recognise he had an abnormality in his heart.
Coroner Alison Mutch said the Jake's collapse was 'incorrectly attributed' to asthma rather than his heart condition and that if 'correct actions had been taken', he may not have died the following month.
