Daughter 'kisses dead mother goodbye - is then told she's alive in next ward'

A daughter kissed her mother goodbye after being told she had died - but reportedly found out hours later that the hospital had made a mistake and her mother was still alive.

Liz Page and her husband Gerry were too upset to realise that the body they had paid their last respects to in a cubicle at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester was not her mother Phyllis Lilley's.

Seven hours later, the hospital is said to have called Ms Page to apologise and reassure her that her 94-year-old mother - who had suffered a stroke - was alive and well on a ward.

"I know it sounds ridiculous that we didn't realise it was her body," Ms Page, 61, told The Sun newspaper.

Ms Page returned home and started making funeral plans when the phone rang.

Dorset County Hospital has since apologised for the mix-up in a letter to the family, the newspaper reported.

ITV News has approached the hospital for further comment.