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Jul 29, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Susan Brown
A 75% liability judgment was seciued from an NHS trust for traumatic brain injuries caused to a baby by doctors’ negligent management of the birth complication known as impaction of the fetal head (IFH). Multiple attempts by the obstetric and gynaecological registrars to rotate the baby’s impacted head manually using forceps and ventouse suction caused traumatic injuries including skull fractures and intracranial haemorrhages (brain bleeds).
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Susan Brown
The NHS’s defence organisation, NHS Resolution have published their annual report and accounts for 2023 to 2024. The report sets out headline figures relating to the number of medical negligence claims received and the compensation that NHS Resolution has paid, or expects to pay to patients who have been injured by medical negligence in order to settle those claims.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Susan Brown |Francesca Marino
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May 9, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Susan Brown
The Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations programme or MNSI has published its national learning report: Factors affecting the delivery of safe care in midwifery units.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Susan Brown
A liability (fault) settlement and £250,000 interim (advance) payment was secured in an ongoing claim for a 10-year-old child with cerebral palsy. The child's cerebral palsy was caused by an acute profound hypoxic ischaemic injury (HIE) to her brain at the time of her birth. She has problems with speech and communication, behaviour and learning. Her mobility is impaired, so she is unsteady and can only walk unaided for short distances.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
e-know.ca | Susan Brown
By Susan BrownInterior Health president and CEOI am deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Doug Cochrane, Chair, Interior Health Board of Directors. Dr. Cochrane joined Interior Health in 2017, and every day since then, he demonstrated a deep commitment to continuous improvement of patient care, quality and safety knowing it would lead to improved health outcomes for the people we serve.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Susan Brown
AbstractGuided by the perspective that intimate relationship types represent a continuum of social attachment, we assessed how living apart together (LAT) relationships are related to psychological well-being in later life.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Susan Brown
Maternity mortality watchdog, MBRRACE-UK, has published two new reports comparing the care received by women whose babies died during or soon after birth. The stillbirths and neonatal deaths all took place between July and December 2019. The aim of the reports was to identify differences in the maternity care given to the Black or Asian mothers, compared with mothers who are White.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Susan Brown
The UK’s maternal mortality watchdog, MBRRACE-UK, have published their 2023 report on the pregnancy and birth-related deaths of women (maternal deaths). The latest Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care report looks at data from the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity for women who died during or up to one year after the end of their pregnancy between 2019 and 2021 in the UK.
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Jun 22, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Susan Brown
Healthcare safety watchdog, HSIB, has highlighted the safety risk to patients with sickle cell disease from ‘gaps’ in their NHS care. HSIB published its findings in two national investigation reports, Management of sickle cell crisis and Invasive procedures for people with sickle cell disease, after World Sickle Cell Awareness Day on 19th June 2023.
