Meningococcal infection – duty to assess aggregate symptoms and signs: In cases involving suspected meningococcal infection in a child, it was held that there is a requirement that GPs should assess the aggregate symptoms and signs that exist, even if those symptoms and signs could, individually, be assessed as non-indicative of meningococcal infection. A doctor should consider whether, by reason of their aggregate presence or their totality, when taken with the general condition of the child, a ...
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