The grieving parents of a 15-year-old girl who died of meningitis days after becoming ill believe doctors missed two chances to save her life, an inquest has heard.
Zara Cheesman's mother and father said their 'trust was completely misplaced' when the teenager was sent home from A&E without a bacterial meningitis diagnosis and was not taken to hospital by ambulance technicians the following day.
The teenager died at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham two days before Christmas last year after showing 'red flags' of the disease, Nottingham Coroner's Court heard on Wednesday.
The inquest was told Zara, from the Mapperley Park area of Nottingham, became ill on the evening of December 19 and vomited throughout the night before she collapsed in the hallway, banging her head, at about 1am.
Zara's mother, Judith Cheesman, phoned 111 when Zara said she had neck and shoulder pain, and was advised to take her daughter to A&E, coroner Elizabeth Didcock heard.
