'I want Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital to learn lessons' says mum of 'beautiful' two-year-old died after failure to repeat checks
The mother of a two-year-old boy who died after staff at Wolverhampton New Cross Hospital failed to repeat heart rate checks is calling for lessons to be learned.
Hudson Cole Perrins, of Willenhall, who had a history of renal issues and congenital heart disease, was initially treated for constipation at the hospital where initial observations showed he had a high heart rate, but no further checks were recorded before he was sent home. However, his mother Kayleigh Taundry took him back the following day when he deteriorated and he was found to be in septic shock and treated.
The inquest found Hudson, of Sandbeds Road, Short Heath, died from natural causes and that it was a "failing" for the checks not to have been repeated on his first visit in keeping with trust policy.
Following the hearing Ms Taundry, who also works for Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, said the inquest conclusion "didn't come as a surprise" and urosepsis had been given "on the balance of probability" as "they couldn't find any other infection".
She told BBC Radio WM that if a urine sample, blood test or scan was taken on his first visit, it would have shown his bladder was full and he would have been given antibiotics earlier.
She said she believed staff "went with the most obvious cause" of his discomfort on June 23 and diagnosed constipation.
"He was also born with hydronephrosis which is a swelling of his kidney. So given that information, I believe that the hospital should have considered his complex medical history, which I don't think that they did," Ms Taundry said.
"They treated him as a typical child. The fact he had only one working kidney - a differential diagnosis should have been explored, which it wasn't."
"I just want lessons to be learned. I acknowledge that there's been failings and I want them to recognise these and learn from them," she added.
Hudson was transferred from New Cross to Birmingham Children's Hospital where he died on June 27. The cause of death was given as lack of oxygen to the brain, multi-organ failure and urosepsis.
He was been born with congenital heart defects which were operated on when he was just seven-months-old at the children's hospital.
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust told the inquest it had already carried out a review of what happened and that lessons had been learned.
Miss Taundry and Hudson's father Greg Perrins had raised questions relating to his care at New Cross.
His family described him as "a beautiful boy".
