A senior doctor who failed to spot that a 13-year-old girl was suffering from sepsis before she died will face no disciplinary sanctions for failings in his care.
Professor Richard Thompson did not refer Martha Mills to intensive care at King's College Hospital in London despite her displaying several high-risk indicators of the life-threatening condition.
The on-call consultant also chose not to return to the hospital to assess her in person as her condition deteriorated.
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel sitting in Manchester had ruled those omissions were misconduct, which they described as 'particularly grave', and found his fitness to practise was impaired.
But today the tribunal decided there were 'exceptional circumstances' which justified taking no further action against the world-renowned paediatric liver specialist.
