THE brother of a woman who died following a routine operation in a private hospital has been given a date for a parliamentary debate into the circumstances of her death.

Carmel Bloom, who was 54 and lived in Snakes Lane East in Woodford Green, died following an operation to remove a kidney stone at the BUPA (now Spire) Roding Hospital in 2002.

Her brother Bernard, of High Road, Chigwell, has spent the last nine years and more than a million pounds trying to establish how she died.

Lee Scott, MP for Carmel's constituency of Ilford North, has secured a debate on the circumstances surrounding her death at 1pm today (March 29) in Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament, in the hope it will lead to an investigation.

He will put a series of questions to a minister from the department of health before any other interested MP can contribute to the debate.

Mr Scott said: “I'm delighted that this debate has been given a slot so quickly.

“It's difficult to get a debate on something so specific like this, as they're usually reserved for things like healthcare across an entire region or something like that.”

Last month Mr Bloom met assistant attorney-general Kevin McGinty to request a fifth inquest into his sister’s death, raising the prospect of having her body exhumed.

Mr Bloom, of High Road, Chigwell, said: “It's obviously going to raise the profile of the case and give it even more publicity.

“I'm also hoping that in the next couple of weeks I'll have the fiat from the attorney general, which is his consent for another inquest that I can then take to the high court to get their approval.

“I just want closure on this whole thing and I won't be able to have that until we bring it all to a head.”

In February 2010, two doctors involved in the case – consultant John Hines and anaesthetist Dr Paul Timmis – were allowed to continue practising despite admitting several failings to the General Medical Council.