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Two-year-old died after doctors assumed she had an acute viral illness, rather than bacterial infection that resulted in her death, a coronial inquest has heard
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The nurse who triaged a two-year-old girl who died of septic shock in regional New South Wales has told an inquest she doesn’t think she would have activated a rapid paediatric sepsis pathway for her if even if she had access to the document at the time.
Pippa Mae White died on 13 June 2022, two months before her third birthday, after doctors at the hospitals in Cowra and Orange assumed she had an acute viral illness, rather than the bacterial infection that resulted in her death.
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EU Staff for Peace letter accuses institution bosses of failing to exert influence to help Palestinians
A group of EU officials has written to the leaders of the European institutions criticising the bloc for “little or no meaningful action” in response to the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The group EU Staff for Peace said that more than 2,000 officials working for the European Commission, European parliament and EU agencies had signed a letter drafted in May 2024 which accused the EU of apathy to the plight of Palestinians.
Lenders’ routine purging after six years means details of some car buyers due compensation may have been lost
Consumers are at risk of losing £1bn of compensation over inflated car loans because high street banks and specialist lenders deleted their data, claims lawyers have warned.
Borrowers, banks and the government are anxiously awaiting a ruling from the supreme court that could spark one of the biggest redress schemes since the £50bn payment protection insurance (PPI) saga.
Government expected to sell last shares in banking group this week, drawing a line under 2008 financial crisis bailout
Fred “the Shred??? Goodwin, the disgraced ex-boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, is estimated to be receiving an annual pension worth nearly £600,000, as the government prepares to declare a £10bn loss after selling its final stake in the bank as early as this week.
The banking group, now known as NatWest, is expected to return to full private ownership within days, drawing a line under a £45bn state bailout that saved the bank from the brink of collapse at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
Country at top of education charts aims to equip students and teachers with ‘world-class artificial intelligence skills’
While many schools in England have banned smartphones, in Estonia – regarded as the new European education powerhouse – students are regularly asked to use their devices in class, and from September they will be given their own AI accounts.
The small Baltic country – population 1.4 million – has quietly become Europe’s top performer in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s programme for international student assessment (Pisa), overtaking its near neighbour Finland.