Leading Birth Injury Lawyer Agrees Maternity Shortages Risk Lives
11/10/2007
May I thank you for the way my accident claim has been handled, after my accident my confidence was very low indeed but the sympathetic handling of my case restored my confidence.
John, Sheffield
Stephanie Forman from the Manchester office of national law firm
Irwin Mitchell today welcomed the call for more midwives, obstetricians
and anaesthetists to make childbirth safer.
Responding to a
report issued today by the Royal Colleges representing UK health
workers involved in childbirth the leading birth injury and neonatal
legal specialist said:
"There is still a worrying trend towards
under-resourcing pre and post-maternity care with tragic consequences.
The women I represent have often been through a perfectly healthy
pregnancy and then something catastrophic has happened at the end
resulting in injury and sometimes the death of the baby.
"The
fact that only one in four maternity units have enough midwives for
one-to-one care and half do not ensure that an obstetrician is
routinely on ward duty is shocking.
"The litigation costs to the NHS could be significantly reduced with appropriate risk management and adequate resourcing."
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