A PARAMEDIC is facing a tribunal hearing over claims she failed to spot a patient had symptoms of a potentially deadly illness.

It is alleged that Kielye L Mitchell showed misconduct and a lack of competence meaning her fitness to practise was impaired during an incident when she was working for the East of England Ambulance Service.

The emergency worker is accused of missing a patient’s rash during an initial assessment and the fact they were exhibiting symptoms of shock due to sepsis on the way to the hospital in the ambulance.

Sepsis is a serious complication of an infection which can lead to multiple organ failure if it is not treated quickly.

Mrs Mitchell is also said to have documented the patient had diarrhoea when it was never reported by the woman nor anyone else involved and had made her walk to the door despite her low blood pressure.

It is said Mrs Mitchell did not transport the patient to hospital under blue light conditions nor alert the hospital prior to their arrival.

It is also claimed the paramedic did not recognise how bad the patient’s symptoms were, or that they were getting worse as time went by.

As a result of this, she is said to have inaccurately noted the woman’s condition was unchanged at the hospital handover stage on the patient care record and failed to tell hospital staff how serious her condition was.

It is understood the patient was transferred to Colchester General Hospital from her home in the borough.

There is nothing to suggest the hospital has any case to answer in regard to the care they provided once the patient arrived.

The incident is said to have happened nearly three years ago - on March 8 2016.

A hearing has now been scheduled by the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service at their London base and is due to start next week.

It has been scheduled to last six days.

The service’s conduct and competence panel will hear evidence and submissions over the allegations and from witnesses in the case.

The panel will then be asked to consider whether they believe the facts are proven on the balance of probabilities - the civil standard of proof.

If they decide Mrs Mitchell’s fitness to practise has been impaired then they will have to decide whether its is appropriate to enforce a sanction.

The options available to them include taking no further action, a caution, setting up conditions of any future practice, a suspension from the register which can last up to a year or striking them from the register indefinitely.