An eight-year-old girl died from sepsis after she was sent home from the GP twice in four hours, her parents said. Mia Glynn, from Biddulph, Staffordshire, had been vomiting and complaining of a sore throat and bad headache for three days.

The parents of Mia Glynn, 8, recall their daughter’s “awful” final moments being dismissed by their general practitioner before she died of sepsis

What is sepsis? Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the body’s immune system overreacts to an infection, causing damage to tissues and organs that if not rec