Midwifery

• Serious concerns for patient safety following baby death at NHS trust

  • PostedMay 21, 2021

  The parents of a baby who died shortly after his birth are looking for answers about why their son died. Beth and Dan Wankiewicz’s son Clay died from multiple skull...

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• Coroner finds that hospital care given to mother and baby was ‘nothing short of shocking’

  • PostedJanuary 29, 2021

  An inquest has found that ‘shocking’ mistakes contributed to the death of a baby at the Queen’s Medical Centre in 2018. Kaylan Coates, son of Hayley Coates, suffered a fractured...

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• Three out of four midwives think current staffing levels are unsafe

  • PostedJanuary 27, 2021

  More than three-quarters of NHS midwives believe that the staffing levels in their NHS trust or board are unsafe, a survey has found. The survey, carried out by the Royal...

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• Four more families come forward over baby deaths at East Kent hospitals

  • PostedFebruary 11, 2020

  Following on from our previous article that reported at least seven preventable baby deaths had occurred at East Kent hospitals, this number has now risen as more families have come...

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• NHS midwifery service terminated with only a week’s notice

  • PostedJanuary 31, 2019

  The Neighbourhood Midwives scheme in Waltham Forest, north-east London, have announced their closure on 7 February 2019 with just one week’s notice. As a result of this, expectant mothers who...

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