The Latest Breaking News from Martha Rule

A medical tribunal found that Professor Richard Thompson’s failures were ‘particularly grave’.

In almost one in five cases studied, parents raised concerns about deterioration before various vital signs

Initiative will enable urgent second opinion and review of care of patients whose condition is deteriorating

The head of the NHS has announced plans to roll out a new system across England that will give seriously ill patients and their families access to a second opinion if their condition worsens

Patients have been moved to intensive care or received potentially life-saving treatment since the right to a care review came into force in England

Families to be given access to second medical opinion after teenager’s sepsis death

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

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

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…