The inquest into how a “fit and healthy” Shropshire school girl died after being misdiagnosed as having swine flu will also look at if any lessons could be learned to save other lives, a coroner said today.

But coroner Mr John Ellery stressed the inquest on Oswestry schoolgirl Charlotte Hartey, who died in July last year, would not apportion blame.

Following Charlotte’s death, her father Karl campaigned for a full inquest.

He said an 86-page report by Shropshire’s primary care trust had helped to persuade the coroner to hold the inquiry.

Mr Ellery said the authorities had initially decided an inquest on the 16-year-old was not to be held.

But following Mr Ellery’s decision to hold the inquiry, a pre-inquest review was held in June between the Hartey family, officials from the Shropshire Primary Care Trust and doctors from Oswestry’s Caxton Surgery.

Mr Ellery said Charlotte, from Bronygarth, had been otherwise fit and healthy.

He said in the July she was diagnosed over the phone by a GP from the Caxton Surgery as having swine flu.

She was prescribed Tamiflu but she was later admitted to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and died on July 31.

The family hope the inquest will give answers to how their popular teenage daughter died.

“We said from the outset that there was nothing natural about Charlotte’s de- ath,” Mr Hartey said.

After the Oswestry School pupil’s death a petition was signed by thousands of people. Mr Hartey said it helped persuade Shropshire Primary Care Trust to hold a “root cause analysis” into the death.

After Charlotte’s death the Hartey family campai- gned for an end to the Government policy of over the phone swine flu diagnosis. They feared it would put more lives at risk and lead to further tragedies.

They also set up the Charlotte Hartey Foundation which gives money to causes close to the teenager’s heart.

Among groups to have be- nefited are Oswestry Youth Cafe, Ellesmere Girl Guides and the Oswestry Kingswell community centre.

A grant has also gone from the foundation to para dressage rider Samira York who hopes to represent Britain in the sport.

By Iain St John