Mother of Martha Mills, who died after treatment failures at London hospital, releases report with Demos calling for new policy in England
, who would have been 16 on Monday, died aged 13 in 2021 after failures to identify and properly treat a case of sepsis that developed while she was in King’s College hospital in London.had doctors identified the warning signs and transferred her to intensive care earlier.Martha suffered a laceration to her pancreas in what initially appeared to be a minor accident while cycling.
“Even if you were to give the doctors the benefit of the doubt and say they were trying not to worry us, the result is that they did not give us any agency in demanding the correct treatment for our daughter – and that control, that overconfidence in yourself and your decision making – is absolutely fine if the system works perfectly, but the system is so far from perfect,” said Martha’s mother, Merope Mills, a senior editor at the Guardian.
Merope Mills told the BBC that parents instigating the process themselves “shouldn’t be a problem and it shouldn’t involve confrontation” – and that such systems already existed in other health services around the world.
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