Overview

• Senior Coroner Tanyka Rawden opened the inquest on August 14 and set a case management hearing for January 30, 2026, with the full proceedings to be scheduled later.
• An NHS England report published July 31 by Peter Carter found Yusuf had 23 separate healthcare contacts across four organisations without coordinated oversight but did not determine his cause of death or assign blame.
• Yusuf’s family say they were told there were no beds and insufficient doctors at Rotherham UECC and believe he should have been admitted for intravenous antibiotics rather than discharged with oral medication.
• The inquest will allow formal scrutiny of disputed clinical decisions at Rotherham Hospital UECC and Sheffield Children’s Hospital ICU, where Yusuf died after developing multi-organ failure and cardiac arrests.
• Health Secretary Wes Streeting has acknowledged the NHS failings identified in the report and backed the family’s pursuit of answers while recommended system reforms await implementation.