Miss F became pregnant with her first child in 2020. Her pregnancy was uneventful and she went into labour spontaneously at full term. She presented to her local hospital with contractions and was assessed by way of a CTG. The CTG alarm sounded and there was a significant delay in her being attended to. Further, there was a failure on the part of the hospital staff to identify that the concerning features of the CTG were pathological in nature.
Miss F’s child was born without signs of life and the working diagnosis was severe hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy. The child sadly deteriorated and sadly died within a week of his delivery.
The case was referred to the local Coroner’s Court and the Coroner identified several failings in the care and treatment provided to Miss F.
Miss F suffered significant psychiatric symptoms as a result of the loss of her child and will continue to suffer as a result of her loss for the rest of her life.
Garratts were able to obtain an early admission from the Trust’s representatives – they accepted that in the absence of negligence, the child would have survived, on the balance of probabilities. Garratts obtained a settlement for Miss F in the sum of £35,000.
Sarah Houghton, Solicitor and Head of Clinical Negligence - ‘this was a very tragic case and although no amount of money will ever make up for what Miss F has been through, it provides her with an acknowledgment that what she went through was entirely avoidable and should quite simply have never happened’.
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