Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, the UK registrar who medical regulators attempted to ban for life after the death of a child from sepsis, has finally qualified as a paediatrician. 

The doctor’s plight became a cause célèbre among doctors around the world who said she was being scapegoated for working in a dysfunctional hospital system.

Back in 2011, a six-year-old boy with Down syndrome, had been admitted to hospital with diarrhoea, vomiting and difficulty breathing. 

On that day, her first day back from maternity leave, Dr Bawa-Garba was doing the job of two registrars to cover staff shortages, while the on-call consultant was absent and a hospital-wide IT failure delayed various test results she needed.