A poorly toddler who died after being discharged from hospital despite a severe infection is highly likely to have survived had doctors followed proper procedures and prescribed antibiotics.
Olly Stopforth, aged 15 months, had been sent home in the middle of the night two days earlier after doctors decided he was suffering nothing more than a viral infection.
There have been a growing number of cases of scarlet fever across the UK, after a surge of around 70 per cent in recent weeks with England's south east reporting the most