Coroner demands investigation after child dies when nurses switch his monitor off

A coroner has referred an ‘incompetent’ nurse to her professional body after a seven-year-old boy died at UK’s biggest private children’s hospital. James Dwerryhouse suffered a catastrophic brain injury at the Portland Hospital when a blood saturation monitor was shut down for nearly three hours without a doctor’s permission. He died in a hospice close to his home in Ipswich when life support was withdrawn the following day. James suffered from sleep apnoea – interruptions to breathing while sleeping that…