Most maternity incidents linked to not acting on fetal heart rates

By Shaun Lintern2019-09-25T06:41:00

Staff failing to act on abnormal fetal heartbeats during labour was the most common contributing factor in cases where babies were born with brain damage and referred to NHS Resolution’s new early notification scheme, it has emerged.

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