Healthy uni student’s death highlights rare brain abscess after sinusitis
A Winchester inquest heard that Cian Everett, a fit and healthy final-year Reading student, died from a rare brain abscess and meningitis caused by sinusitis, hours after doctors sent him home with nasal spray; the case highlighted gaps in how 111 calls were reviewed and led to changes in procedures and a prevention of future deaths report, with his family later establishing a foundation in his memory.