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young father died of blood poisoning after being sent home "muscle pain" Staffordshire Hospital

The family of a young father who died of blood poisoning on Christmas Day has received a six-figure sum in compensation after hospital bosses admitted that a second opinion is almost certainly saved his life.

Malcolm Drake, of Blurton Stoke-on-Trent, was 23 when he died of septicemia after developing an abscess after a hole in your gut as a result of an undiagnosed illness the Crohn's disease.

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He left behind his fiancée Sophia Lindop and his son Zak, who was five months old.

Three days before his death in 2007 he went to the emergency room of University Hospital of North Staffordshire, it was so bad that I could not walk. He had been there a week earlier with similar symptoms, but was sent home.

On the second time, was diagnosed with a muscle stretch replacing a general practitioner, Dr AW - out of hours working on his first day in hospital - and was sent home, law firm of his family, Irwin Mitchell, said.

If Crohn's disease was diagnosed, doctors could have saved the lives of Drake, by performing an emergency operation to prevent an intestinal abscess formed and caused blood poisoning which the killed.

Stoke-on-Trent Primary Care Trust agreed that the GP surrogate should have asked the opinion of a second doctor at once from the hospital, saying it was the second of Drake using A & E with the same symptoms. He also acknowledged that this would have led to emergency surgery.

she said. "Our son, Zak, is now four-year school starts in a few days and it would have been a milestone in his life he should have shared so much with his parents.

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