Senior doctor accused of failures in case that gave rise to Martha’s rule

Martha Mills would most likely have survived if doctors in King’s College hospital had identified warning signs, a coroner ruled in 2022. Photograph: Mills/Laity family photograph/PA

A senior doctor has been accused of wrongly failing to escalate the care of a 13-year-old girl whose death led to the adoption of Martha’s rule, which gives the right to a second medical opinion in English hospitals.

At a disciplinary tribunal in Manchester, Prof Richard Thompson was also said to have provided a colleague with “false and misleading information” about the condition of Martha Mills.