If you think there are sad failings in the NHS...

Very sad! DD had no trouble with 111 when GS2 had breathing problems, in fact they were a bit worried because she chose not to have an ambulance but took him into A&E herself.

This was so terribly sad and probably could have been avoided long before sepsis set in. How many mothers have been told by a GP that they are being over-protective and fussing? Me for one on more than one occasion when in fact the DGC were very ill (not sepsis) and l know friends who were told that too.

Yes, it is septicaemia, I had it several years ago, we did not know what was wrong, but I was told to go into hospital straight away, there I was given a bed in the emergency ward. I then lay there for over four hours because the junior doctor on duty refused to come out from her cubicle office where she was doing paperwork to see me despite DH's pleas.
After eventual diagnosis treatment was instigated and care was fine once I had been moved to another ward.
I did not realise at the time just how serious it was, although my family did.

There needs to be so much more awareness both in hospitals and in the GP service.

But this was emergency care, Katek. That's the point.
The NHS employs call handlers with no medical training to use computer algorithms to decide what action should be taken when patients access the emergency service via 111.
I heard the child's mother saying that the algorithm did not recognise the seriousness of the child having a low temperature, and this sign was missed by the GP as well.

And yes, without a shadow of doubt the NHS has significant failings. Not in emergency care - which is second to none-but thereafter.

Isn't that what Henry Worsley died of following appendicitis?

I think it's just another term for septicaemia, or blood poisoning.

There are no words for this unforgivable lack of care.

Its tragic, I hadnt heard of Sepsis until a few months ago when I read a novel about someone losing a child to Sepsis, heart breaking.

Yes I have to agree jings. My DD and I were crying over this story yesterday. In our local news (BBC Spotlight) another story emerged about an older child in Devon who died from sepsis in very similar circumstances about 4 years ago. It was said then that 'lessons have been learnt'. Clearly they haven't.