Doctor criticised after baby dies while in care of privatised GP service

Coroner says doctor made 'wholly inadequate entries on the records that were clearly at odds with the evidence' The performance of a doctor treating a seven-week-old baby boy who died while in the care of the privatised out-of-hours GP service in north London was "wholly inadequate", a coroner said on Thursday. Dr Muttu Shantikumar assessed the newborn baby, Axel Peanberg King, in a telephone call lasting just one minute a few hours before he collapsed in his mother's arms, and later made "wholl...