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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver

Student died from sepsis after antibiotics error in London hospital, inquest hears

William Hewes
William Hewes died from sepsis at Homerton hospital in east London. Photograph: Family handout/PA

A consultant paediatrician warned medical colleagues treating her son that they had failed to give him life-saving antibiotics hours before he died from sepsis, an inquest has heard.

William Hewes, 22, a history and politics student, died on 21 January 2023 of meningococcal septicaemia at east London’s Homerton hospital, where his mother, Dr Deborah Burns, worked.

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