Overview
- On Monday a pre-inquest review at Bournemouth town hall led Coroner Brendan Allen to rule the full inquest must be heard by a jury because the death involved a notifiable disease.
- The coroner defined the inquest scope to cover Megan Draper's call to NHS 111, triage at Royal Bournemouth Hospital, out-of-hours care and her transfer to Southmead Hospital in Bristol.
- Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust was asked to provide a statement explaining the 111 call details and its call-handling procedures as part of evidence-gathering.
- The inquest was adjourned and provisionally listed as a five-day hearing starting July 19, 2027, giving time for witness statements and document disclosure.
- Megan Draper's parents continue to campaign about MenB vaccine gaps because the MenB jab was added to the routine NHS infant schedule in 2015 and people born before then do not have that routine protection.