Doctor describes delay in giving sick baby antibiotics, inquest hears - Ben Condon, who was two months old, died at Bristol Children’s Hospital in April 2015

Ben Condon, who was two months old, died at Bristol Children’s Hospital in April 2015. | ITV News West Country

A 111 call handler referred the parents of a premature baby to an out-of-hours GP rather than dispatch an emergency ambulance to their home due to 'external pressures', an inquest heard. Two-month-old Ben Condon died at Bristol Children’s Hospital in April 2015 after developing a respiratory illness.

"If we treated every child that had a change of X-ray and the changes we saw in Ben with antibiotics, then we would be treating with antibiotics all the time," she said. Dr Dean s