BBC News, Yorkshire
A new report of the death of a five -year -old boy, who died a few days after being sent home from the hospital’s emergency department, found that NHS has failed to hear the “mother’s instinct”.
Yusuf Nazir died eight days later, when he was prescribed antibiotics by employees at Roderham General Hospital to treat lung infection.
The 139-Page report states that Yusuf’s family concerns were not repeatedly accepted by healthcare providers.
Healthcare said it accepted the recommendations of the report and accepted issues that had exposed by the investigation.
Yusuf’s family called for a complete inquiry and insisted that NHS learns a lesson from his death.
His mother, Sonia Ahmed said: “The failures identified are really shocking. Joseph deserves better, every child does.
“I will never stop speaking his name. I will never stop fighting for him. We demand accountability, we demand change.”
Joseph, who was asthma, died after spreading in his lungs.
He was first seen by a GP on 15 November 2022 and antibiotics were prescribed. He was taken to the emergency department of Roderham General Hospital, but was discharged with more medicine.
Yusuf’s family said he was told that he was “no beds and had enough doctors” and his son could not be admitted.
On 18 November, he was taken to Sheffield Children Hospital and three days later he was admitted for intensive care.
On 23 November, Yusuf died after several organ failure and several heart arrest as a result of infection.
In October 2023, a report in Joseph’s case, published by independent advisors and by NHS South Yorkshire, his care was appropriate and “an entry was not clinically necessary”, but it was rejected by his family.
Former general secretary of Royal College of Nursing, former General Secretary of Peter Carter, the new report found that “the insight on the insight on the diagnostic matrix created a crisis for the family”.
It said: “This lacks shared decision making and clinical decisions had limited evidence of associate discussions with Joseph’s family, which led to exclusion and low faith in care plans.”
Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who met Joseph’s family last year, said that his concerns were “not repeatedly addressed” by NHS.
He said: “There is no excuse for tragic failures led by Yusuf’s death and I first know how difficult it is for his family to live without the answers he deserves.
“Now it is the responsibility of NHS to implement the recommendations in this report so that the family can at least relax to know that due to Joseph, and thanks to Joseph, children will take safe and better care in the future.”