Articles in ‘Maternal injury’ Category

Kerstin Scheel reviews the current state of maternity care in the UK, and what is being done to improve patient safety in this area.

A recent report has noted a poor standard of supervision and reviews of care by midwives at Furness General Hospital, raising the question of how peer management should be properly undertaken?

A mother who felt “robbed of the first months of her daughter’s life” after the hospital made several serious negligent mistakes during the birth, secured a significant compensation.