Father’s nine-day-old son dies due to hospital blunders

A heartbroken father told yesterday how his newborn son bled to death in hospital after a series of blunders by NHS staff.

Joshua Titcombe was nine days old when he died from a common infection picked up from his mother which could have been cured with antibiotics.

James Titcombe said he and his wife Hoa had urged staff at Furness General Hospital, in Cumbria, to treat Joshua with antibiotics but they were told he seemed well and did not even need to see a doctor.

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