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Doctors’ default position should be to rule out sepsis – Jason Watkins

Watkins and his wife Clara lost their two-year-old daughter to sepsis.

The Independent UK

Monday briefing: How the death of Martha Mills sparked a movement for change

In today’s newsletter: After their daughter’s death in an NHS hospital, Martha Mills’s parents want to introduce a right to a second opinion

The Guardian - UK

Martha’s Rule may help save lives in the future

Letters: Readers respond to articles by Merope Mills and Paul Laity on the preventable death of their daughter Martha, and their campaign for change within the NHS

The Guardian - UK

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Inquest finds ‘gross’ failures in care of UK student who died after rugby injury

Maddy Lawrence waited more than five hours in agony on pitch for ambulance and then developed sepsis in Bristol hospital

The Guardian - UK

Ryan’s rule: the Australian right to a second medical opinion that may soon be saving lives in England

Protocol entitling relatives to ask for a senior clinician if they are unhappy with hospital treatment emerged from tragedy and has been invoked thousands of times

The Guardian - AU

Martha’s rule: second-opinion law can work – but only if organisational shortcomings are addressed

As things stand, hospital patients in England have no legal right to a second medical opinion. But that could soon change, as a campaign to give patients formal entitlement to an urgent second opinion is gathering momentum and gaining support from key figures, including those in government as well as…

The Conversation

OPINION - Martha Mills’s death shows there’s a deep-rooted problem lurking in the NHS — groupthink

Listen to the patient, [they are] telling you the diagnosis”. So said William Osler, the “father of modern medicine”. It is a rule that is not always followed.

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The Guardian view on Martha’s Rule: boosting patient power could save lives

Editorial: The right to seek a second opinion in hospital, when treatment isn’t working, is in all our interests

The Guardian - UK

Labour will examine NHS weekend working in wake of teenager’s death – Streeting

The shadow health secretary was asked about criticism of weekend staffing levels following the death of 13-year-old Martha Mills.

The Independent UK

Labour backs call for ‘Martha’s rule’ on right to second medical opinion

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says party would back government if it introduced rule in England

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: With no end in sight, Ukraine reckons with trauma, triumph – and the path ahead

In today’s newsletter: After 18 months of brutal fighting, the country has stunned the world with its warcraft, even as our foreign correspondent details the mood among citizens, reports of corruption and prospects for peace talks

The Guardian - UK

‘Martha’s rule’: ministers consider law to give right to second medical opinion

Mother of girl who died after hospital failed to admit her to intensive care says policy would make it easier for patients and families to seek advice from senior doctor

The Guardian - UK

Government considering call to implement ‘Martha’s rule’ to boost patient safety

The parents of a girl who died after doctors failed to admit her to intensive care want to make it easier to get a second opinion.

The Independent UK

Martha Mills: Parents of girl who died after NHS mistakes call for new right to get second opinion

Martha Mills died after developing sepsis while under the care of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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OPINION - The Standard View: Firm solution needed for concrete problem

It is back to school day across the country — or it ought to be. Instead, pupils at 104 schools and colleges, eight of them in London, face serious disruption after full and partial closures of the buildings they use over fears about a catastrophic collapse of the concrete used…

The Independent UK

Bereaved parents call for right to a second opinion after mistakes in NHS care

Martha Mills died after developing sepsis while under the care of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Evening Standard

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

Martha Mills, 13, tragically died after treatment failures at King’s College Hospital

The Guardian - UK

Parents of girl who died of sepsis in NHS hospital call for right to second medical opinion

Mother of Martha Mills, who died after treatment failures at London hospital, releases report with Demos calling for new policy in England

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The Guardian - UK

Winners of the inaugural Martha Mills prize for young writers announced

Judges praised the ‘staggering amount of talent on display’ in entries to the competition launched by the London Review Bookshop for writers aged 11 to 14

The Guardian - UK

Martha Mills prize: new award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop

Prize for writing by 11-14-year-olds inspired by ‘imagination and curiosity’ of Martha, who died in 2021 aged 13

The Guardian - UK

Girl, 13, likely to have survived if moved to intensive care, coroner rules

Inquest says Martha Mills would probably not have died of sepsis if King’s College hospital doctors had heeded warnings

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