The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has admitted failings in the care of two-year-old Hudson Cole Perrins, who died from sepsis just four days after doctors at New Cross Hospital misdiagnosed him with constipation. Hudson's parents took him to hospital with severe stomach pain, and after examining him doctors gave him laxative treatment and sent him home, but he deteriorated and began having seizures the next day. He was transferred to Birmingham Children's Hospital's intensive care unit, where his life support was switched off; his death was ultimately attributed to a brain injury caused by a urinary tract infection that spread to his kidneys, triggering sepsis.

Hudson's family, who had a heart defect and complex medical history, argued that staff wrongly settled on constipation without testing for a urine infection, failed to provide adequate pain relief and did not monitor his catheter properly. The Trust has now reached an out-of-court settlement with the family, accepting it should have given pain relief sooner and checked the catheter's drainage, though it denies these failings caused his death. Hudson's mother, Kayleigh Taundry, a former nurse at the Trust for 18 years who resigned in April, said she hopes the settlement ensures lessons are learned so no other family suffers the same loss.