Meningitis

• Why is antibiotic resistance increasing despite a 17% drop in prescriptions?

  • PostedNovember 4, 2019

  Despite a 17% drop in antibiotic prescriptions given out by GPs over the last five years, the number of antibiotic-resistant infections continues to rise. Public Health England encourages GPs and...

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• Six-year-old Suffolk boy dies after ambulance service failures

  • PostedOctober 24, 2019

  Oliver Hall, six, of Halesworth, Suffolk, died from meningitis in October 2017 after ambulance control room staff failed to inform paramedics of crucial information which could have saved his life....

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• Child’s meningitis misdiagnosed as ear infection

  • PostedSeptember 14, 2018

  After nine month old Amy had been acting differently, her mother took her to A&E where she was diagnosed with an ear infection. She was given medication and sent home....

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