Cork GP to be sanctioned after 10-year-old girl died from treatable Strep A infection

Medical Council inquiry hears GP admissions as parents relive failures that preceded the painful death of 10-year-old Vivienne Murphy

Cork girl Vivienne Murphy died of an invasive Group A Strep infection. Picture: Collins, Dublin.

A Cork GP is to be sanctioned for poor professional performance after a 10-year-old Cork girl suffered a painful death from an illness that is treatable if diagnosed in time.

Three findings of poor professional performance have been made against a Cork GP over her failure to recognise the urgency of the condition of the girl.