La ragazza, 3 anni, è morta per sepsi dopo che la “sopraffatta” A&E l’ha licenziata
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/15/girl-died-from-sepsis-after-hospital-dismissed-her/
di GnolRevilo
La ragazza, 3 anni, è morta per sepsi dopo che la “sopraffatta” A&E l’ha licenziata
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/15/girl-died-from-sepsis-after-hospital-dismissed-her/
di GnolRevilo
8 commenti
Don’t worry I’m sure some mad NHS bod will appear in the comments momentarily to remind us of how it was the parents”/the little girl’s fault
There’s absolutely no excuse for this. Signs of sepsis and ‘consider if the patient could be septic’ have be drummed into training again and again for years.
“A report later found a sepsis screening tool was completed during an initial assessment and “recorded signs that should have triggered an urgent sepsis review”.”
They even carried out the screening and still failed to act! Incredible that these tools are brought in to fix the repeated failures and then just get ignored.
Article heavily applies mum self-discharged and the classic use of the now non-specific term of ‘medics’, which journalism increasingly uses to hide the fact it was a non doctor role like an ACP or CNS. Journalism is always garbage with these tragic stories and always leaves significant gaps
There was alarming case in the news where a hospital in Chester was undergoing a CQC inspection and the inspector had to point out to Drs that a patient had sepsis. How the hell does that happen?
She probably didn’t have sepsis at the time she was initially assessed, mum took her home and hours later she was dead, no blame on mum taking her home but she should have stayed there so she could be monitored and the deterioration would have been picked up before it was too late
She’s suing the hospital for negligence, all that happens in these cases is the family get a big payout, hospitals insurance costs increases massively, taxpayer picks up the bill, child is still dead.
The bottom line is hospitals need more medical and nursing staff, the few there are working in absolutely horrific conditions, none of them go to work to miss things like this, it’s tragic
seems like the mother decided to leave the a&e despite the worsening condition, she herself describing it as “manic” that she chose to do such.
i dont see how the doctors are at fault when she decided to leave. she could have stayed and got her assessed more thoroughly. the hospital cant do an assessment for sepsis without a patient present.
i know if my kid was that obviously ill, I’d keep them in a&e until they were properly seen. i definitely would not chance it by just going home, because this stuff happens.
This is tragic – all the more so because she actually triggered the sepsis alert. I know A&E gets busy but that’s no excuse. My heart goes out to her parents ❤️
“Mum was concerned by the long wait and took her daughter home.”
If she’d done what she was told and kept her daughter in hospital, she would likely still be alive.