PROF ROB GALLOWAY: Martha's Rule giving parents a right to a second opinion is a start but...
Daily Mail Following the tragic loss of teenager Martha Mills in hospital, patients may be given the right to a second opinion - but our columnist fears it's not enough.
Martha Mills would have turned 16 earlier this month. But instead of celebrating her birthday, her parents were campaigning for the introduction of Martha's Rule to protect other patients succumbing to an avoidable death in hospital.
Martha died three years ago after developing an infection and then sepsis, following an injury to her pancreas after an innocuous accident on her bike while on a family holiday in Wales.
As the father of a 16-year-old daughter, like all those who've heard her tragic story, my heart bleeds for the family.They also suffered the agony of losing her, knowing Martha could have survived if staff had listened to their concerns.
Compounding the awfulness of her story, Martha was an inpatient on the Rays of Sunshine ward at King's College Hospital in London, a world-leading paediatric liver unit which also specialises in pancreatic injuries.
