Isabel Maude and her mother Charlotte

A couple who nearly lost their child when a hospital doctor failed to spot a rare disease have set up a website to try to stop it happening to other children.

Isabel Maude, now a healthy five-year-old, became seriously ill when a junior doctor in an Accident and Emergency department missed life-threatening complications with her chicken pox.

Rather than sue the hospital, her parents looked at the root of the problem and set up a special website for medical staff.

Doctors type in the symptoms and it brings up a detailed list of possible causes - meaning rare disease are less likely to be missed through lack of knowledge.

The system's on trial at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington and is being run as a charity.

Isabel's parents are appealing for funding to develop the site and doctors say it's already stopped several sick children becoming seriously ill or even dying.

Website: http://www.isabel.org.uk
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