My son died unnecessarily in an NHS hospital.  The Coroner ruled that his death was due to gross failure leading to gross negligence and had correct protocols been followed he could have survived.  Milo was born in chronic renal failure. After nearly two years of travelling from Hampshire to Great Ormond Street Hospital weekly, if not daily sometimes, we finally achieved the correct criteria for him to receive a kidney from his father at the age of 22 months..  Sadly, this kidney began failing when he was 23 years old.  His second transplant was in November 2019.  It was a great success and he was so ready to begin a life and career in London but sadly Covid struck.

Milo was an incredibly bright young man who worked so hard to always achieve the best.  He received a First Class Honours degree from Chelsea College of Arts and was being head hunted.

Sadly, in July 2020, he felt unwell, was confused and not himself.  After calling the hospital who passed me on to 111, then onto A&E, I eventually called 999.  The paramedics were concerned and said he needed to admitted.  This was at 1.00 am on 2nd July.  By 3rd July at 1.00pm, he had suffered a cardiac and respiratory arrest because they ignored that his sodium was dropping causing his brain to swell.  

At 5.00pm his father and I were told that Milo was brain dead.  We looked after him meticulously as did Milo himself.  Within, 36 hours of entering the hospital, he lost the life he worked so hard for with such grace and dignity.  It is simply unforgivable.  Human errors occur but in Milo’s case it was a sequences of errors, lack of communication between the departments involved, inadequate charting, ignoring our input and concerns, sedation without correctly monitoring him more closely and so much more.

As a result of this, I feel passionately that Government needs to step in.

I believe that many deaths in hospitals are preventable. I want the Government to hold a Public Inquiry into these unnecessary deaths and life changing errors, to investigate why these occur, and how these could be prevented. No one should die or suffer unnecessarily in hospital.

Healthcare is the Government’s responsibility. I would like Government to investigate how to ensure that all NHS hospitals acknowledge and learn from the care mistakes made; and how create an NHS where failure is not ignored but is used to maximise patient care.

I think hospitals need to be more closely scrutinized and monitored to prevent any future failures from occurring. A Public Inquiry could identify changes which could help achieve this, which the Government can impose.

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