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Medical negligence news In Birth injury
£50,000 award to mother after ectopic pregnancy blunder at Croydon's Mayday hospital
Michelmores Clinical Negligence team provide a link to the report in the Croydon Advertiser - click here
Created: 02/02/2009
Categories: Birth injury
Scandal over standards of care at Birmingham Children's Hospital
Michelmores clinical negligence team provide a link to Sunday's Observer story following the report commissioned by the NHS primary care trusts in Birmingham into what the Guardian describes as the scandal of care received by children at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Created: 10/11/2008
Categories: Birth injury
Maternity ward blunders double in two years
Mothers and babies are claimed to be at risk because of soaring numbers of life-threatening mistakes on ‘substandard’ NHS maternity wards.
Created: 08/10/2008
Categories: Birth injury
Study links cerebral palsy to antibiotics given during premature labour
A new study links a small number of cerebral palsy cases to antibiotics given to women in premature labour.
Created: 24/09/2008
Categories: Birth injury
Swindon inquest into death of baby Mariyam Salam after air tube blunder
A premature baby died after a ventilation tube was mistakenly put into her stomach rather than her lungs, an inquest has heard.
Created: 14/08/2008
Categories: Birth injury
Health watchdog slams maternity care
New figures reveal wide variations in the death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at NHS trusts in England.
Created: 11/07/2008
Categories: Birth injury
£8 million settlement of Owen Johnson's Wordsley Hospital, Stourbridge cerebral palsy claim
Michelmores clinical negligence team provide a link and the full text of the online Stourbridge news report below.
Created: 10/07/2008
Categories: Birth injury
Sun Woman Health publishes report "How to get a first class birth"
The Sun newspaper today publishes midwife Sue Jacob's recommendations in "How to get a first class birth" Woman Health feature. Michelmores' clinical negligence team publish the Sun's report in full and include links to the NHSLA sites.
Created: 31/01/2008
Categories: Birth injury
Report shows shortcomings in care for women in labour
Thousands of women are left alone during and shortly after labour, leaving them potentially at risk, according to a new survey. The report, by health watchdog the Healthcare Commission, poll of 26,000 women and found that one in four had felt worried when left alone by medics. The poll also identified significant variations in care among 148 NHS trusts across England. In some trusts, one in 10 women said they were left alone at a time that worried them, this compared to a third in some trusts.
Created: 28/11/2007
Categories: Birth injury
Hospitals under fire for rate of childbirth injuries and deaths
Up to a thousand babies are dying every year because doctors and midwives are overstretched and too poorly-trained to spot warning signs during childbirth, according to a new report.
Created: 24/09/2007
Categories: Birth injury
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