{"id":282502,"date":"2026-02-05T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:50:09","slug":"parents-say-daughters-death-will-affect-them-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282502\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents say daughter’s death will affect them forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

The parents of a 10-year-old girl who died after a Strep A bacterial infection was left untreated for several days, have said they want to make sure such an event never happens to any child again.<\/p>\n

Vivienne Murphy, who was from Millstreet in Cork, died in 2019 after a Strep A bacterial infection was left untreated for several days. She was also later diagnosed with sepsis and rare bacterial infection necrotising fasciitis.<\/p>\n

Her parents, Lilly and Dermot, said this morning that Strep A is a curable infection with antibiotics and early diagnosis.<\/p>\n

They said their daughter had died an horrendous death and it will affect their mental health forever.<\/p>\n

They were speaking after the end of the second and final day of a Medical Council Fitness to Practise Committee (FTPC) inquiry.<\/p>\n

\"Vivienne's
\nVivienne’s parents Lilly and Dermot with their solicitor Robert Bourke<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Cork GP Dr Joyce Leader admitted to three counts of poor professional performance in relation to Vivienne’s care.<\/a><\/p>\n

She is a practising GP in Boherbue in Cork, and was working at out-of-ours GP service South Doc.<\/p>\n

An unreserved apology was today read to Vivienne’s parents by the lawyer for Dr Leader, on the GP’s behalf.<\/p>\n

Dr Leader said she should have emphasised the need to transfer Vivienne to hospital.<\/p>\n

She also said the events occurred early in her career and the way she now practised had changed as a result of what happened.<\/p>\n

The inquiry heard she is also undertaking to undergo further education on Strep A and sepsis.<\/p>\n

\"Dr
\nJoyce Leader said she should have emphasised the need to transfer Vivienne to hospital<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the council said that the degree of patient harm and outcome is a factor that can be considered when deciding on a sanction on a doctor.<\/p>\n

Barrister for the Council, Neasa Bird, told the inquiry that sanctions must be proportionate but in this case should be on the more serious level.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the inquiry heard that Vivienne had become unwell on Valentine’s Day 2019 and died in hospital in Dublin two weeks later on 1 March.<\/p>\n

This morning, the inquiry heard submissions on sanctions.<\/p>\n

The Fitness to Practise committee will now consider what sanctions should apply to Dr Leader but this will not be made public.<\/p>\n

It will send its report to a full meeting of the Medical Council, which will decide on the matter at a later date in private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parents of a 10-year-old girl who died after a Strep A bacterial infection was left untreated for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-282502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282502","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=282502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}