I had never spoken to the doctors about Martha being moved to PICU, and they never mentioned it as a possibility. I noticed news stories that would have made me glaze over before Martha’s death: the world was now a very different place. But we were still luckier than many other families: at least Martha’s death had prompted an investigation. Why had we never been told Martha had sepsis? The MPTS holds between two hundred and three hundred hearings a year, involving both GPs and hospital doctors.