The doctor whose errors killed a six-year-old boy is expected to return to work after a medical tribunal decided she posed a low risk to patients.

Eight years after she missed “clear” indications of Jack Adock’s sepsis, leading to his death, Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba was found on Monday to have taken “significant steps” to remedy her professional shortcomings, leaving her on the cusp of practising again.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service Panel (MPTS) issued a technical ruling that the paediatrician is impared from practising because she has not dealt with patients for four years.

However, this is likely to be eased on Tuesday in favour of being allowed back to front-line care, subject to some retraining and monitoring.

It follows a lengthy legal saga which saw the doctor convicted of gross negligence manslaughter but not initially banned permanently by the MPTS.

The tribunal was then taken to court by the General Medical Council - its own parent body - to get Dr Bawa-Garba struck off, a decision which was itself overturned last year.