Merope Mills
Editor, Guardian Saturday Magazine at The Guardian
Editor of the Guardian Saturday magazine & patient safety campaigner
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Oct 25, 2024 |
msn.com | Merope Mills
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Oct 25, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Merope Mills
On the morning of 30 November 2022, Keri-Sue McManus sat down with her three-year-old son, Micah, to watch the TV series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. A preschool animation about a tiger cub, the show sets out to teach life lessons. That day, Keri-Sue chose a specific episode, Daniel Goes to the Hospital, for a reason. She planned to take Micah to hospital and was using the cartoon to reassure him that everything would be OK.
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Oct 8, 2023 |
bmj.com | Merope Mills
Merope Mills, executive editorThe GuardianWhen a patient is deteriorating but no one is listening, Martha’s rule will guarantee a second opinion. Martha’s mother, Merope Mills, calls for doctors and nurses to embrace its implementationMy daughter, Martha Mills, died a few days before her 14th birthday in the summer of 2021. It was a preventable death.
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Sep 22, 2023 |
bmj.com | Merope Mills |Paul Laity
Dear Editor,We thank Geevithan Kumaran for engaging with Martha’s Rule, which is to be implemented across NHS England hospitals in the near future. We are Martha’s parents. A point of fact regarding his response: Martha’s sepsis, as has been documented, wasn't ‘unrecognised’.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
inkl.com | Merope Mills
The rule will give patients, families and carers the chance to easily request a second opinion from senior medics in the same hospital, in the event of a suspected deterioration or serious concern. Ms Mills said: “I met with the Secretary of State for Health yesterday and welcome the news that he will introduce Martha’s rule across NHS England hospitals.
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"It’s about a shift in the balance of power away from passive deference to doctors and towards patients" Thanks to @Keir_Starmer for highlighting the successes of Martha's Rule in his speech on the NHS this morning https://t.co/OorO4J3EN6
“A reader of The Times commented “my husband was saved by this process.” Thank you @HelenRumbelow for taking the time to talk to me about how Martha’s Rule can help make the NHS better & safer
🗣 ‘Martha’s Rule can fix the NHS culture that cost my daughter her life’ Merope Mills lost her 13-year-old daughter to sepsis after the mother’s repeated pleas to escalate her care were ignored https://t.co/Uf2mgKHuVE
"Some worried that people would abuse a helpline by calling it for the “wrong reasons”. This is exactly the kind of suspicion and dismissal of patients that contributed to Martha’s death." A great piece by @sarahditum on the early positive results for #MarthasRule
Martha's Rule works. But it's so simple, so clearly just that patients have the right to a second opinion - it should never have taken a child's avoidable death to get here https://t.co/ZedGp3znyS