Parents' instincts must be considered, report says after boy, 5, died

Doctors have been ordered to take parents' instincts into account after a five-year-old-boy died when he was sent home from A&E due to bed shortages.

Yusuf Mahmud Nazir passed away from respiratory failure, pneumonia and tonsillitis in November 2022 - just eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics.

After a previous report branding the child's care 'appropriate' was rejected by Yusuf's family, a new publication by NHS England finally confirmed he was failed by the health service.

The document stated: 'Our primary finding is that the parental concerns, particularly the mother's instinct that her child was unwell, were repeatedly not addressed across services.

'A reliance on clinical metrics over caregiver insight caused distress for the family.