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Three more tragic children failed by NHS hotline: Deaths that should have been a warning but Hunt puts blame on the success of 111 out-of-hours service

Jeremy Hunt puts blame on the success of NHS 111 out-of-hours service
British children Sam Morrish, three, (pictured left) and Chloe Welch, four, (centre) died from sepsis. Sebastian Randle (right), who was just a baby, succumbed to an infection. Had the tragic lessons of their deaths been learnt by the NHS, a fourth child, William Mead, might be alive today. An NHS report revealed by the Mail yesterday shows that doctors and a 111 call handler all failed to detect how gravely ill one-year-old William was. The inquiry found that the box-ticking computer script used by the hotline's non-medical staff was not set up to spot sepsis. Families and campaigners said William's death showed ministers had ignored warnings about the illness, which kills 1,000 children a year.

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