Consultant should have referred teenager to intensive care, tribunal rules

A senior doctor should have referred Martha Mills sooner to intensive care, a medical tribunal has ruled (Family handout/PA) - (PA Media)

A senior doctor should have referred a teenager to intensive care when she displayed several “high-risk indicators” of sepsis days before she died, a medical tribunal has found.

Martha Mills, 13, had been an inpatient on the Rays of Sunshine Ward at King’s College Hospital in London after she suffered a serious injury to her pancreas when she slipped while riding a bike on a family holiday in Wales in July 2021.