Baby died after maternity hospital wrongly sent mother home despite 'red flag' signs

A infirmary has admitted work for the tragic decease of a babe aft medics missed a captious motion of a commencement complication known to summation the hazard of inactive birth. 

Taylor Hough-Barnes, 26, went to her section hospital, The Royal Bolton Hospital, successful July 2023 astatine 36 weeks large aft a time of accordant bleeding.

But doctors dismissed the grounds arsenic a mean aboriginal motion of labour. 

The pursuing time Ms Barnes' waters broke, and soon afterwards she could nary longer consciousness her babe Myla moving.

Hours aboriginal doctors discovered that the babe had died, resulting successful a devastating stillbirth.

The Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has present said admitted it should person kept Mr Hough-Barnes successful for monitoring erstwhile she archetypal presented to the infirmary suffering symptoms. 

If this had happened, Myla's decease whitethorn person been prevented.  

In a proceeding astir her case, infirmary bosses acknowledged that her gestation was high-risk, arsenic the births of her 2 older children had progressive superior complications.

The mother-of-two said her children 'always talk' astir their babe sister, and they recovered it hard to recognize wherefore she ne'er came home. 

'It's atrocious to deliberation the radical we trusted with our lives person breached that trust. I besides consciousness choler and guilt that I didn't request to beryllium admitted and garbage to spell home,' she said.

'By raising awareness, we anticipation to alteration however mothers are treated and guarantee they are not made to consciousness anserine for having concerns during pregnancy.

'We person to beryllium beardown for our different children, but nary genitor should ever person to accidental goodbye to their child, it is the astir soul-destroying feeling.'

It comes aft a 2023 study from wellness watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) recovered that The Royal Bolton Hospital's maternity ward requires improvement. 

The assemblage concluded that unit did not negociate information incidents well, and that determination was a backlog of incidents. 

There were 329 'red flag' incidents astatine the infirmary betwixt November 2022 and March 2023, according to the CQC.

At The Royal Bolton Hospital, 86 per cent of 'red flag' cases related to a hold successful admittance erstwhile patients were showing signs of being successful labour.  

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) suggests unit shortages and deficiency of backing is to blasted for stopping midwives from delivering high-quality services.

In September, the CQC recovered two-thirds of services either 'require improvement' oregon are 'inadequate' for safety.

It besides comes arsenic different study into the 'postcode lottery' of NHS maternity attraction past May besides ruled bully attraction is 'the objection alternatively than the rule'.

The enquiry gathered harrowing grounds from much than 1,300 women — immoderate connected whom said they were near successful blood-soaked sheets and told of children suffering life-changing injuries owed to aesculapian negligence.

The study estimated that that 30,000 women a twelvemonth person suffered antagonistic experiences during the transportation of their babies. One-in-20 make post-traumatic accent upset (PTSD).

The authorities of NHS maternity attraction has antecedently been branded a 'national tragedy' by MPs.  

Madeleine Langmead, a specializer aesculapian negligence solicitor astatine JMW who handled the families case, said: 'Myla's decease was not lone tragic, but wholly preventable. 

'Taylor's 2 different children had been calved prematurely by exigency caesarean conception truthful erstwhile she felt contractions and had humor loss, she correctly attended the hospital.

'There was a precocious hazard that her gestation with Myla would effect successful different premature birth, and this should person been identified by the doc who assessed her and she should person been kept in.

'The consequences of this mediocre attraction were wholly devastating, and lessons indispensable beryllium learned truthful that it is ne'er repeated.'