Overview

• The tribunal concluded that Thompson did not escalate Mills’s deteriorating condition on 29 August 2021 despite clear high-risk sepsis indicators and omitted an in-person review.
• Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service chair Robin Ince described the omissions as particularly grave misconduct impairing Thompson’s fitness to practise.
• The panel noted Thompson has since remediated his practices and currently presents no ongoing impairment of patient safety.
• Martha’s Rule, enacted in 2024 after Mills’s death, has generated over 2,000 patient escalations and more than 100 paediatric intensive care reviews across NHS hospitals.
• The tribunal will reconvene this week to decide what, if any, sanctions should be imposed on Thompson’s medical registration.