{"id":652,"date":"2015-12-18T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T08:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T13:28:22","slug":"doctor-and-nurse-sentenced-for-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/doctor-and-nurse-sentenced-for-manslaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor and Nurse Sentenced for Manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A doctor and an agency nurse have both been given a two year suspended sentence for the manslaughter of a six year old boy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jack Adcock, who had Down\u2019s syndrome and a heart condition, was admitted to Leicester Royal Infirmary in February 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

Medical practitioners failed to notice he was critically ill with pneumonia and sepsis. <\/span><\/p>\n

He went into cardiac arrest, but CPR was halted after he was mistakenly believed to have a Do Not Resuscitate Order.<\/span><\/p>\n

The error was realised after a few minutes but Jack sadly died, just 11 hours after reaching the hospital. <\/span><\/p>\n

A doctor and an agency nurse were found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence last month. Another nurse was cleared of the same charge.<\/span><\/p>\n

A two year suspended sentence has been handed to each Defendant, who were told by the judge that their medical careers will now \u201ccome to an end\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

The prosecutor said Jack has been \u201crobbed\u201d of his chance to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jack\u2019s mother made an impact statement in court, saying: \u201cJack was neglected from the moment he entered the Leicester Royal Infirmary Children\u2019s Assessment Unit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will never forgive myself for taking him there. I could have cared and looked after him better than they ever did.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me so angry to think that my son could still be here today if they had done their jobs right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Medical negligence <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you or your loved one has been the victim of substandard medical care, please get in touch with us at Glynns Solicitors. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A doctor and an agency nurse have both been given a two year suspended sentence for the manslaughter of a six year old boy. Jack Adcock, who had Down\u2019s syndrome and a heart condition, was admitted to Leicester Royal Infirmary in February 2011. Medical practitioners failed to notice he was critically ill with pneumonia and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[698,697,699,700,645],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sepsis-2","tag-doctor-sent-to-prison","tag-jack-adcock","tag-leicester-royal-infirmary","tag-nhs-manslaughter","tag-sepsis-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}