A senior doctor who failed to spot that a 13-year-old girl was suffering from sepsis燽efore she died will爁ace no disciplinary sanctions for failings in his care.

Professor Richard Thompson did not refer Martha Mills to intensive care燼t King's College Hospital in London despite her displaying several high-risk indicators of the life-threatening **dition.

The on-call **sultant also chose not to return to the hospital to assess her in person as her **dition deteriorated.

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel sitting in Manchester had ruled those omissions were mis**duct, which they described as 'particularly grave', and found his fitness to practise was impaired.

But today the tribunal decided there were 'exceptional circumstances' which justified taking no further action against the world-renowned paediatric liver specialist.

Martha had been an inpatient on the hospital's Rays of Sunshine Ward after she suffered a serious injury to her pancreas when she slipped while riding a bike on a family holiday in Wales in July 2021.