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Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline – May 2026
Jack Garden
Sadly, the Royal College of Obstetrics and Midwives report that in the UK, each year over 1000 babies die or are left with severe brain injury because something has gone wrong during labour. This blog is to give you some information about stillbirths or losing a baby shortly after birth and how we might be able to help.
How does the law deal with the situation where an individual receives negligent medical treatment, the consequences of which manifest in a traumatic death many months later and that death is witnessed by members of the deceased’s family? This question has vexed the Courts for decades. Master Cook in the recent case of Polmear -v- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust had to grapple with this very issue.
An urgent inquiry into systemic racism in the NHS and how it manifests itself in maternity care was launched yesterday. The Inquiry has been convened by Birthrights: an organisation dedicated to improving women’s experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
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