An inquest into the death of a premature baby heard that a 111 call handler referred his parents to a GP rather than dispatching an ambulance due to 'external pressures'. The call handler also incorrectly recorded answers about whether Ben was conscious and alert.
A 111 call handler referred the parents of a premature baby to a GP rather than dispatching an ambulance due to "external pressures", an inquest heard.
An inquest originally recorded his death as being caused by acute respiratory distress syndrome, human metapneumovirus and prematurity, which was quashed by the High Court, after new evidence emerged.Ben was born at 29 weeks at Southmead Hospital on 17 February 2015 and then went home with his parents on 7 April to Weston-super-Mare, the new inquest heard.
The court heard that by 19:45 GMT, when Mr Condon and his wife Jenny had not received the call from the GP, they took their son to Weston General Hospital.
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