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A grandmother who lost four fingers and a thumb to sepsis believes more should have been done to help her during her first hospital visit.

Shirley Bartram, from Gravesend, was taken by ambulance to Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford with severe pain in her left side and vomiting.

After tests, the mum-of-four, who had not passed urine for 12 hours and had a raised heart rate, was diagnosed with a suspected kidney infection.

However, despite being prescribed intravenous antibiotics, she was discharged hours later with the medics failing to administer them.

Instead, she was sent home with oral antibiotics which health bosses admit, following legal submissions by medical negligence lawyers Irwin Mitchell, were inappropriate to treat her c

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