{"id":308443,"date":"2025-08-01T05:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308443\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:29:20","slug":"call-for-inquest-into-death-of-boy-sent-home-from-ae-as-report-reveals-failings-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308443\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for inquest into death of boy sent home from A&E as report reveals failings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The mother of a five-year-old boy who died after he was sent home from A&E has said she hears her son every night saying \u201cMummy, I can\u2019t breathe\u201d, as a report concluded her instincts were \u201crepeatedly not addressed across services\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died at Sheffield Children\u2019s Hospital on November 23 2022, eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics.<\/p>\n

A fresh report into Yusuf\u2019s care was published on Thursday with a range of recommendations for the NHS, but his family said there are still many unanswered questions and have demanded an inquest into his death.<\/p>\n

The report said in its conclusions: \u201cOur primary finding is that the parental concerns, particularly the mother\u2019s instinct that her child was unwell, were repeatedly not addressed across services.<\/p>\n

Yusuf deserved better. Every child does. I will never stop speaking his name. I will never stop fighting for him. I fight for every child failed by the NHSSoniya Ahmed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA reliance on clinical metrics over caregiver insight caused distress for the family.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis led to a lack of shared decision-making and there was limited evidence of collaborative discussions with Yusuf\u2019s family around clinical decisions, leading to a sense of exclusion and reduced trust in care plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at a press conference in Rotherham, Yusuf\u2019s mother, Soniya Ahmed, said: \u201cFor the medical staff there are lessons to be learnt from this tragedy, but for us, our life, Yusuf has been taken away from us in the most horrific way.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery night when I close my eyes I hear Yusuf\u2019s helpless voice in my ears saying, \u2018Mummy, I can\u2019t breathe, I can\u2019t breathe, I really can\u2019t\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the image of him being handed over to me after his life ended, as though someone has torn my heart out and placed it in my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Ahmed choked back tears as she said: \u201cAlong with these failings, there is still uncertainty on his cause of death.<\/p>\n

\u201cYusuf deserved better. Every child does. I will never stop speaking his name. I will never stop fighting for him. I fight for every child failed by the NHS.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demand accountability, we demand change.<\/p>\n

It is now the responsibility of the NHS to implement the recommendations in this report so that the family can at least take small comfort in knowing that because of Yusuf… children will be safer and better cared forWes Streeting<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe want to know how our son has died and who is responsible, and the only way we will get these answers is with an inquest. The family demand an inquest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yusuf\u2019s uncle Zaheer Ahmed has always said they were told \u201cthere are no beds and not enough doctors\u201d in the emergency department, and that Yusuf should have been admitted and given intravenous antibiotics in Rotherham.<\/p>\n

Yusuf, who had asthma, was taken to the GP with a sore throat and feeling unwell on November 15. He was prescribed antibiotics by an advanced nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n

Later that evening, his parents took him to Rotherham Hospital urgent and emergency care centre (UECC) where he was seen in the early hours of the morning after a six-hour wait.<\/p>\n

He was discharged with a diagnosis of severe tonsillitis and an extended prescription of antibiotics.<\/p>\n

Two days later Yusuf was given further antibiotics by his GP for a possible chest infection, but his family became so concerned they called an ambulance and insisted the paramedics take him to Sheffield Children\u2019s Hospital rather than Rotherham.<\/p>\n

Yusuf was admitted to the intensive care unit on November 21 but developed multi-organ failure and suffered several cardiac arrests which he did not survive.<\/p>\n

A report into his case in October 2023, produced by independent consultants and published by NHS South Yorkshire, found his care was appropriate and \u201can admission was not clinically required\u201d, but this was rejected by his family.<\/p>\n

\"YusufYusuf Mahmud Nazir (Family handout\/PA)<\/p>\n

Health secretary Wes Streeting said on Thursday: \u201cThere are no excuses for the tragic failings in the lead-up to Yusuf\u2019s death and I know first-hand how hard it has been for his family to live without the answers they deserve.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis independent report reveals their concerns were repeatedly not addressed across NHS services.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is now the responsibility of the NHS to implement the recommendations in this report so that the family can at least take small comfort in knowing that because of Yusuf, and thanks to Yusuf, children will be safer and better cared for in the future, but I know that really is of no consolation for a loving family living with the unimaginable pain of losing a lovely little boy in these awful circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Aidan Fowler, national director of patient safety in England, said: \u201cOur thoughts and sincere condolences remain with the family of Yusuf Nazir who have suffered an unbearable loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe accept the report\u2019s recommendations and acknowledge the issues this independent investigation has uncovered, particularly the failure to listen to and act on the concerns of Yusuf\u2019s family by multiple NHS services, which is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working to ensure families are actively involved in care decisions with most acute hospital sites across the country now starting to use Martha\u2019s rule, enabling loved ones to ask quickly for a different clinical opinion if they have concerns, while we are committed to creating a single patient record so that all staff across the NHS can access the same clinical information regarding a patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Jeff Perring, executive medical director at Sheffield Children\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust, said: \u201cThe report identifies important areas for learning and improvement, not only for us at Sheffield Children\u2019s but also across the wider healthcare system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are dedicated to delivering the improvements outlined in the report\u2019s recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Jo Beahan, medical director at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, said: \u201cOur deepest sympathies remain with Yusuf\u2019s family following such a sad loss of a loved family member. We fully co-operated with this investigation into Yusuf\u2019s care.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have taken steps to address the recommendation and also the concerns raised by Yusuf\u2019s family. Our thoughts continue to be with Yusuf\u2019s family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a five-year-old boy who died after he was sent home from A&E has said she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-308443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114951865222986160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}