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A hospital in Norfolk is to review its procedures after a baby was assessed for more than an hour in its car park. | A hospital in Norfolk is to review its procedures after a baby was assessed for more than an hour in its car park. |
Nine-month-old Amy Cawley was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn when she fell ill. | Nine-month-old Amy Cawley was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn when she fell ill. |
Staff believed Amy might have been suffering from swine flu so was checked in her parents' car for 70 minutes, but in fact she had a viral infection. | Staff believed Amy might have been suffering from swine flu so was checked in her parents' car for 70 minutes, but in fact she had a viral infection. |
Amy's father, Ashley Cawley, said he was going to make a formal complaint to the hospital. | Amy's father, Ashley Cawley, said he was going to make a formal complaint to the hospital. |
"We didn't know what was going on, everything came as such a shock," he said. | "We didn't know what was going on, everything came as such a shock," he said. |
"For anybody to be left in a car at any time of the year is questionable." | "For anybody to be left in a car at any time of the year is questionable." |
Hospital spokesman Noel Scanlon said examining a child in the car park on a winter's night was "not ideal practice." | |
He said: "We will be looking very carefully at our procedures as a consequence of this child's experience." | He said: "We will be looking very carefully at our procedures as a consequence of this child's experience." |
The hospital said it would give the Cawleys a copy of their investigation. | The hospital said it would give the Cawleys a copy of their investigation. |
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