Bungling NHS Direct nurse thought doctors would have picked up illness

A bungling NHS Direct call handler who gave wrong advice to the mother of a dying three-year-old boy said today (TUES) she thought if it was serious the doctors ‘would have picked it up’. Nurse advisor Daisy Chipunza admits her failures to recognise the problem contributed to the death of Sam Morrish during a flu epidemic on 23 December 2010. Sam had been treated by two GPs at The Cricketfield Surgery, Newton Abbot, Devon and his parents had also sought…