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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Martha’s rule: Government considers call for right to second medical opinion after girl’s sepsis death in London hospital

The parents of a teenager who died in a London hospital two years ago have called for patients and their loved ones to be given the right to an urgent second opinion if they feel they are not being listened to.

Martha Mills died aged 13 in 2021 after sustaining a laceration to her pancreas from a bike accident on a family holiday in Wales. She later developed sepsis while being treated at King's College Hospital, in Camberwell.

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