{"id":710,"date":"2016-03-01T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:02:01","slug":"ombudsman-says-sepsis-death-was-avoidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/ombudsman-says-sepsis-death-was-avoidable\/","title":{"rendered":"Ombudsman Says Sepsis Death Was \u201cAvoidable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Health Service Ombudsman says the death of a nine year old boy in December 2013 could have been avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Hull, who suffered from cerebral palsy, was taken to Whiston Hospital by his mother when he developed a chest infection. <\/span><\/p>\n

At 8pm he was attended by a consultant who suspected sepsis, but this information was not relayed to other medical practitioners or Thomas\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe would have survived\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

He was seen by another registrar at midnight. After what Thomas\u2019s mother describes as a \u201ctwo-minute consultation\u201d he was diagnosed with a \u2018mild chest infection\u2019 and discharged from hospital. He died six hours later on 5 December 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dame Julie Mellor, the Health Service Ombudsman, has now released an official report into his death. She concludes that Thomas\u2019s death \u201ccould have been avoided.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not reasonable to discharge [Thomas] so soon, given that there was no evidence of significant improvement, and that had he stayed in hospital it was more likely that he would have survived\u201d, she said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo much deceit\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

It is also alleged that the doctor who discharged Thomas falsified his account of events. Dame Mellor confirmed there were \u201cdifferent accounts of what happened\u201d, saying:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMedical records made at the time were not consistent with the second registrar\u2019s explanation for the decision to discharge\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trust\u2019s initial treatment was appropriate but there was insufficient evidence to support the second registrar\u2019s account of the time of, and the reasons for discharge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe second registrar did not comply with the professional standard that entries in medical records should be made as soon as possible after the event, and if there is a delay, the time of the event and the delay should be recorded.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas\u2019s mother, Donna Hull, said she \u201cnever thought there would be so much deceit over a child\u2019s death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sepsis case<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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

The Health Service Ombudsman says the death of a nine year old boy in December 2013 could have been avoided. Thomas Hull, who suffered from cerebral palsy, was taken to Whiston Hospital by his mother when he developed a chest infection. At 8pm he was attended by a consultant who suspected sepsis, but this information […]<\/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":[771,772,645,770,769],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sepsis-2","tag-boy-dies-of-sepsis","tag-sepsis-claim","tag-sepsis-death","tag-thomas-hull","tag-whiston-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}