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Colchester Hospital has awarded a nine-year-old girl a £5.5m compensation package after delays in treating her meningitis when she was a baby left her with brain damage and suffering from epilepsy, requiring lifetime care. Aged eight months, Ellie Sutton was discharged by hospital staff despite her having a recorded temperature of 39.9°.
Her family’s lawyer’s argued that, in doing so, the hospital failed to follow its own guidelines, which recommend that any child with a temperature greater than 38° be admitted and monitored hourly. Ellie’s mother Sarah took her back to the hospital later that evening, but even though a doctor recommended her condition be examined further a medical review was not conducted until the ward rounds 11 hours later.
http://www.thelawyer.com/briefings/...-hospital-meningitis-failings/3023047.article
Her family’s lawyer’s argued that, in doing so, the hospital failed to follow its own guidelines, which recommend that any child with a temperature greater than 38° be admitted and monitored hourly. Ellie’s mother Sarah took her back to the hospital later that evening, but even though a doctor recommended her condition be examined further a medical review was not conducted until the ward rounds 11 hours later.
http://www.thelawyer.com/briefings/...-hospital-meningitis-failings/3023047.article