Doctor guilty of misconduct over case of girl, 13, whose death led to Martha’s rule

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Doctor guilty of misconduct over case of girl, 13, whose death led to Martha’s rule

Panel found Prof Richard Thompson failed to escalate Martha Mills’s treatment to intensive care or to review her condition directly in person

A senior doctor has been found guilty of “misconduct which impairs his fitness to practise” in relation to his treatment of a 13-year-old girl whose death led to the adoption of Martha’s rule.

The disciplinary panel reached its decision having determined that Prof Richard Thompson failed to escalate the treatment of Martha Mills to an intensive care unit or to conduct a direct in-person review and assessment, including of a newly developed rash.

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