Girl, 13, likely to have survived if moved to intensive care, coroner rules

Inquest says Martha Mills would probably not have died of sepsis if King's College hospital doctors had heeded warnings

A 13-year-old girl who died after contracting sepsis in an NHS hospital probably would have survived if doctors had identified the warning signs and transferred her to intensive care earlier, a coroner has ruled.

Martha Mills, from London, described by her parents as bright, healthy, enthusiastic", was the first ever child to die at King's College hospital (KCH) with a pancreatic injury of the type she sustained in a fall from her bike on an off-road family trail in Wales while on holiday last year. She was transferred to the south London hospital because it is one of three national centres for the care of children with pancreatic trauma.