questions i put to doctorjames mcdonald of the maidstone and tunbridge wells nhs trust.d in a&e, he went to triage, he had some subtle signs of infection, he had a temperature and a mildly raised heart rate and slightly low blood pressure. as such, we failed to screen him for sepsis. had a team been screened, would he have been treated sooner? most likely, yes. he would have triggered as potentially having sepsis and had re—followed our own pathways, he would have had intravenous antibiotics within an hour and intravenous fluids and it may have changed the outcome. since tim's death, the trust says it has vastly improved its screening rates for patients with possible signs of sepsis and is now using a revised checklist to help it identify the condition earlier. if they look sick or they have got a high temperature or they have got a high temperature or their physiological parameters are abnormal, then they go into the screening... before addressing the board of the trust, the family are back at tunbridge wells hospital to see a sepsis training session in action. a few th

he was driven to tunbridge wells hospital by his mother.e in the morning that he thought he was dying when he was in the hospital. and he said to me, "mummy, i'm not going to get through this". at about 7.30 in the morning, he was still very poorly but a young doctor came to see us and said that the initial bloods they'd taken seemed fine and, although he was unwell, they thought it was just a virus, so they were going to discharge him. tim was discharged but, that same day, he started to feel worse, and was taken back to tunbridge wells hospital. he couldn't walk, stand or sit up. gavin received a text message from his wife. to get that text, "get here fast," i knew what that meant. doctor after doctor started appearing, surgeons, anaesthetists, icu people, nurses out of nowhere. we promised him he'd be waking up and that all four of us would be gathered at his bedside. the last words we exchanged with him were a lie because we couldn't say goodbye. and then the decision was made to turn off the machines because they had been unable to get

the isle of wight and tunbridge wells coming northwards, that weather is fairly bright and northwesternhowers there for the western iles and temperature is around nine, 13 and the south and saturday night on the weather front is fairly quiet again. it will be a chilly night into sunday and you see pockets of frost developing there. city centre is between one or four degrees. and outside, around —1 or two. se turbulence for the day here but further south the weather is looking all right and quite sunny when i think on the south coast. then into the next week that's high pressure starts to anchor itself across the uk and when we see a anger it means once it has established itself and is not moving anywhere so it is going to drive our weather for quite anywhere so it is going to drive our weatherfor quite some anywhere so it is going to drive our weather for quite some time and that means that next week with a high pressure in charge, it is looking dry, quite a bit of sunshine and on the weather front it is looking a breeze. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at nine. a b