Hospital must pay compensation over baby death

A hospital has been told to pay compensation to the family of a baby who died because of"serious failings".

The ombudsman's report ruled there were serious failings at the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk, which said it had apologised to the family.The report from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found mistakes were made in Harris's care and the trust mishandled his mother Mary Gunns' complaint, while also failing to properly investigate the death.Harris was admitted to the Gorleston hospital on 2 November 2015, after being referred by his GP.

However, on 12 November he was taken by ambulance to the trust's A&E department after he vomited and became"floppy".Staff suspected he had sepsis and possibly aspiration pneumonia - a type of pneumonia caused by breathing something in, such as vomit, rather than by bacterial infection.Harris, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, was transferred to a paediatric ward but his condition got worse.

The report said had Harris received the appropriate treatment it was"more likely than not that his death would have been avoided".

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tory england and more to follow.

Won’t bring him back 😢

Nothing can compensate for the death of a child.

So sweet 😍

Dreadful - and if we were still in election mode BBC would be blaming the Tories ... not all NHS staff are Angels or competent, you can’t micro manage it from Govt!

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