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Atkins to ask NHS chief to look at death of boy sent home from A&E, family says

Source: PA Media

The head of NHS England is being asked to look into the case of a five-year-old boy who died a week after he was sent home from a hospital emergency department, his family said, after meeting Health Secretary Victoria Atkins.

Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23 2022, eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics.

A report into Yusuf’s case last year, by independent consultants and published by NHS , found that his care was appropriate and “an admission was not

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