William Hewes died aged 22 at Homerton University Hospital in January 2023 within 24 hours of being admitted after his meningitis, caused by a meningococcal infection, developed into sepsis.

Consultant paediatrician Deborah Burns said she felt betrayed by Homerton Hospital – where she has worked for more than 20 years – after her son William Hewes died there with sepsis.

William Hewes died aged 22 at Homerton University Hospital in east London in January 2023 within 24 hours of being admitted after his meningitis, caused by a meningococcal infection, developed ...

A student with sepsis was not given antibiotics when he should have been due to a miscommunication between a doctor and nurses, an inquest has heard. William Hewes, 22, died at Homerton Hospital ...

Medical staff failed to swiftly administer antibiotics to the son of one of the hospital’s senior doctors, who was showing signs of sepsis, before he died, an inquest has heard. William Hewes died ...