Millie Hook

“There is a concern that the systems for dealing with patients in the Emergency Department at Basildon Hospital presenting with acute physiological derangement and who are clearly unwell, is inadequate”

“There is a concern that those working in substantive consultancy posts at Basildon Hospital and other hospitals in the Trust, including in departments to which critically ill patients may be taken and where the care that such patients receive might affect whether they survive or not, do not hold the appropriate consultant registration standard”

“There is a concern over the effectiveness and sufficiency of the Trust's arrangements for investigating cases where patients have died or where there have been other serious outcomes, including not properly obtaining and considering additional clinical opinion, not investigating promptly and seeking to sufficiently to implement learning from such incidents”

“There is a concern as to whether there is a pro- forma sepsis protocol in use at Basildon Hospital, and if there is, how this protocol is being deployed and whether clinical interventions pursuant to this protocol are being adequately recorded”