BBC News – Cheltenham: Baby death prompts change in hospital’s guidelines
A hospital’s guidelines for referring mums-to-be for specialist maternity help have been changed after the death of a baby at a midwife-run NHS centre. Margot Frances Bowtell was born 14 May 2020 at a unit in Cheltenham but died of a brain injury at three days old. A report by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch […]
Newborn baby boy’s death due to hospital neglect
An Inquest conducted by the Hertfordshire Coroner Service has concluded that aspects of the events leading up to the sad death in hospital of Eddie Coffey, a one-day-old baby boy were so unsatisfactory that they amounted to neglect. The hearing at Hatfield learned that Eddie Coffey had died in the neonatal intensive care unit at […]
