London, Jan 22 (Daily Mail) : A toddler has been awarded damages because her mother died just hours after she was given the all-clear by doctors.

Nadia Wearn, 31, went into South Tyneside District Hospital with chest and back pain in 2011 but was told she was cradling her then-13-week-old daughter Ava incorrectly.

But just two hours after dance teacher Ms Wearn was sent home by medics, she went into cardiac arrest and tragically died.
A court has since found that Ms Wearn would have been likely to have survived to bring up her daughter with her husband Jason had the hospital carried out the correct tests.

Three-year-old Ava - who will grow up without her mother - has now been awarded a significant compensation payout by the NHS.
Ms Wearn, of South Shields, Tyneside, died on June 1, 2011 after desperate attempts by her nurse mother Pauline Elleithy failed to revive her.

Her family began legal proceedings in October 2012 against South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, which subsequently admitted liability.
Speaking after yesterday's hearing, the family's solicitor Angela Curran, from Burnetts Solicitors, said: 'The Trust accepted liability for Nadia's death in 2013 and agreed that further tests should have been carried out.

'Sadly, the Trust also admitted that, had those tests been undertaken, Nadia would still have been in hospital at the time of her cardiac arrest and in all likelihood would have been successfully resuscitated. It's an absolutely tragic case. There are no winners here.'
An inquest in 2012, heard during Ms Wearn's first visit to the hospital no electrocardiography or blood tests were carried out to find out the cause of her pain.

Doctors originally thought the mother-of-one had died from a blood clot in her lung but a post mortem examination could find no cause of death and the coroner recorded an open verdict.

Ms Wearn had been diagnosed with hereditary spherocytosis, a blood disorder, in her childhood. It had resulted in her having to have several blood transfusions as a child until she had surgery to have her spleen removed at the age of eight.

But the mother had since had a fit and healthy life and her condition, which has been passed on to Ava, didn't affect her.

Ava's award, the full amount of which has not been disclosed, will be paid into the court and administered to ensure she is taken care of until adulthood.

Dr Peter Goode, a specialist consultant at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, told the hearing the tests 'should have' been done.
Steve Williamson, South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust's chief operating officer, said: 'We are extremely sorry about Nadia Wearn's tragic death and would like to extend our deepest sympathies to her family on their sad loss.'

Recording an open verdict at the 2012 inquest into Ms Wearn's death, coroner Terence Carney said that if Nadia was in hospital at the time of her collapse, her chances of survival would have been greater.

Ms Wearn's husband Jason Wearn told the court: 'Nads did say to me in the hospital she didn't feel her point was being recognised when she was telling the doctors of her symptoms.

'Some routine tests were taken and we were sent home. We did argue a bit on the way home because Nads felt she hadn't been listened to but she didn't want to go back.'

Ms Wearn's mother broke down in tears as she told the inquest how her daughter collapsed.

A spokesman for the trust in charge of South Tyneside hospital said: 'We are extremely sorry about Nadia Wearn's tragic death'

A spokesman for the trust in charge of South Tyneside hospital said: 'We are extremely sorry about Nadia Wearn's tragic death'
She told the coroner: 'Nadia was sitting on the sofa and then she just leaned forward and said "faint".

'I told her to sit back and I shouted to Jason to get the baby and told him to call an ambulance. I pulled her on to the floor. There was no pulse. I started CPR, but there was just nothing.

'The ambulance seemed to take ages to arrive. Her lips were blue, I just held her on the floor, kept doing CPR. I checked her pulse and there was nothing. She had gone.'

The cause of Ms Wearn's death was 'unascertained', according to Home Office pathologist Stuart Hamilton, who conducted a post mortem examination.

She had been assessed as a minor injury patient at the hospital, the inquest heard, and no Electrocardiography (ECG) or blood tests had been carried out to try to find out the cause of her pain.

When asked why, Dr Soni Shrestha, who examined Nadia in the accident and emergency department, replied: 'All her findings were normal. She did not appear anxious, not to me. All her vitals were fine.'

Dr Shrestha said that she had told Nadia to return to the emergency department if her symptoms worsened.

But Dr Peter Goode, a specialist consultant, said Ms Wearn 'should have' had an ECG and blood tests.

He said: 'If those investigations had been done, could this have presented this lady's death or reduced the risk? If they had been abnormal in some way, she would have been admitted to hospital.'