1 month |
Delay in hospital admission in neonate with respiratory distress |
Pneumonia |
|
2 months |
Failure to recognise severity of respiratory infection |
Pneumonia secondary to pertussis |
|
4 months |
Breathlessness attributed to bronchiolitis in child with congenital heart disease |
Heart failure |
|
7 months |
Failure to administer pneumococcal vaccine on request |
Pneumococcal meningitis |
|
8 months |
Failure to recognise severity of secondary infection in chickenpox |
Septicaemia |
|
9 months |
Failure to administer pneumococcal vaccine on request |
Pneumococcal septicaemia |
|
1 year |
Inadequate safety netting |
Pneumococcal meningitis |
|
1 year |
Failure to recognise severe dehydration |
E. coli diarrhoea |
|
3 years |
Cough and fever diagnosed as ‘throat infection’ |
Empyema and septicaemia |
|
6 years |
Vomiting and pallor diagnosed as ‘viral infection’ |
Viral pericarditis |
|
8 years |
Failure to attend follow-up GP appointment following asthma exacerbation |
Severe acute asthma |
|
8 years |
Myalgia and fever diagnosed as ‘flu’ |
Pneumococcal meningitis |
|
8 years |
Repeated failure to recognise severity of infection over 7 days |
Viral pneumonia |
|
12 years |
Failure to recognise importance of respiratory symptoms |
Staphylococcal pneumonia |
|
14 years |
Exceptionally reported from quality indicators for failure to attend |
Acute asthma |
|
15 years |
Failure to follow up poor asthma control |
Acute asthma |
|
16 years |
Prescribed epilepsy medication had run out |
Drowned in bath during seizure |
|
16 years |
Severe acute infection diagnosed and treated as asthma |
Pneumonia |