The parents of a boy left with a severe brain injury after paramedics missed signs of meningitis have spoken of their “devastating” ordeal after his symptoms were dismissed .

Teddy Woodhouse was just seven weeks old when his temperature spiked “dangerously” above 40C and he stopped feeding on 28 November, 2021. His worried parents Kara and Chris called 999 and an ambulance was rushed to the family’s Cambridgeshire home, where medics eventually managed to encourage him to feed and bring his temperature down slightly.

But despite his “very fast” heart rate and a fever of 39C, paramedics decided not to take Teddy to hospital and instead told Chris and Kara to give him half a spoonful of Calpol.…