For the five families of the dead children, the hyponatraemia inquiry has been a long and difficult road. The 14-year inquiry into hyponatraemia-related deaths which was published on Wednesday ...

In January, the Hyponatraemia Inquiry into the deaths of the five children in hospitals found that four were avoidable. Hyponatraemia occurs when there is a shortage of sodium in the bloodstream.

It is understood to be a dilutional hyponatraemia caused by an increase of total body water relative to the amount of exchangeable sodium stores. Fourteen runners presented to one London hospital with ...