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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

NHS trust admits contaminated feed caused baby’s death after decade of denial

A baby in blankets, sleeping
Aviva in the neonatal intensive care unit at St Thomas’ hospital. Photograph: Supplied

An NHS trust has admitted that a highly vulnerable baby died because of contaminated feed that it gave her, after denying that for more than a decade.

At an inquest on Tuesday, Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust said it had given Aviva Otte a nutritional product containing deadly bacteria in January 2014. It had previously insisted to her mother, a coroner and the Guardian on multiple occasions that she had died of natural causes.

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