{"id":280804,"date":"2026-02-04T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280804\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:38:09","slug":"gp-who-failed-to-recognise-critical-condition-of-girl-who-died-from-treatable-illness-is-found-guilty-of-poor-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280804\/","title":{"rendered":"GP who failed to recognise critical condition of girl who died from treatable illness is found guilty of poor performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vivienne Murphy died at 10 years of age.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9cf3c980-a049-4c9e-8d56-4d94d28a0fcb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Vivienne Murphy died at 10 years of age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Three findings of poor professional performance have been made against a Cork GP over her failure to recognise the urgency of the condition of a young schoolgirl who subsequently suffered a painful death from an illness that is treatable if diagnosed in time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Vivienne Murphy (10) from Millstreet, Co Cork, died of an invasive group A strep infection at Children\u2019s Health Ireland at Temple Street in Dublin on March 1, 2019 \u2013 two weeks after she had first complained of a sore throat, a high temperature and a rash as well as aches and pains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vivienne Murphy died at 10 years of age. Three findings of poor professional performance have been made against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,127509,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-280804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-temple-street-hospital","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}