Marianne Lomax

Denial of requested caesarean sections and rigid scanning pathways that are unsuitable for high risk pregnancies? A story that is too familiar. Families are seeking accountability & meaningful change from OUH Trust. You can read my full blog below: fieldfisher.com/en/injury-clai…

“No woman should go in to hospital looking forward to the birth of their baby, only to leave in a coffin.” I’ve reflected on the UK’s sharply rising maternal mortality rate - from my experience of working, and being a patient, in the NHS. 👇 drmusgrave.substack.com/p/the-collapsi…

‘[a] lack of compassion and transparency following baby loss and injury can lead to mothers wrongly blaming themselves, compounding trauma’ fieldfisher.com/en/injury-clai…

‘By 2035 EHCPs - legal documents which set out the help children are entitled to - will be reserved for only the most complex cases’ - early thoughts are that this may increase justification for private therapies to bridge the gap in claims for children #post" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bbc.co.uk/news/live/c98q…

This will only accelerate calls to do something about the costs of negligence but the true issue is not the costs bur the harm itself and how we stop it, learn from it and avoid these cases happening at all.

Impact of this on NHS and clinical negligence claims could be significant

Horrific case: ‘extended use of forceps …caused Ada's catastrophic spinal and skull injuries.’ Resulted in the infant’s wholly avoidable death. fieldfisher.com/en/injury-clai…

My colleague Louise Astill’s piece for Cerebra regarding the effect of therapeutic hypothermia in babies with moderate/severe HIE, we often see neurodevelopmental issues arising later in childhood - cognitive and behavioural - rather than physical/CP cerebra.org.uk/legal-rights/s…

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation: thetimes.com/article/7eed8b…

‘Let me prepare towards her, and let me call This hour her vigil, and her eve, since this Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is.’ poetryfoundation.org/poems/44122/a-…

@KenZeroHarm @FionaWinserRamm It’s from the article, a very thoughtful piece from a woman personally impacted

@mariwalke @FionaWinserRamm ZHH May I ask where that excellent quote is from please, Marianne? That’s Zero Harm Healthcare, Zero Avoidable Deaths and Zero Avoidable Harm.

‘The emphasis should be, and should always have been, on having a safe birth, regardless of whether that entails a caesarean, an epidural, or not.’

A case recently settled by my colleague, Punam Sood. Pathological CTG was not recognised, had it been delivery would have been expedited which would have avoided hypoxic ischaemic brain injury and lifelong significant needs.

Temporary temperature normalisation after Calpol or similar is not unusual in very unwell children, and can’t be relied on to rule in or out a diagnosis. Coroner concerningly noted there are ‘currently no national sepsis screening rules for paediatric departments in hospitals’

Sent to me by a client; not the first time I’ve seen the introduction of an electronic patient record causing issues including delays and having a downstream effect on care and treatment. One example was an EPR sending test alerts to the dormant inbox of an outgoing Consultant

@roryisconfused Go ‘The Stand’ for a seasonal superflu ambience

He seems perhaps eerie in a way I need right now…maybe I should read Salem’s Lot

What if I decided to walk in the opposite direction of the brodernists and put down my Krasznahorkai and get really into Stephen King

"C-sections are now more common than 'natural' births" I should be on @TimesRadio ~9.40 tomorrow morning to discuss this. thetimes.com/article/27967a…

Thematic review on obstetric anal sphincter injury claims; cases are typically brought for misdiagnosis and delayed recognition with incorrect grading accounting for 58% of those cases, and forceps deliveries feature prominently. resolution.nhs.uk/resources/lear…

@catherineroyuk I agree, it’s an incredibly strange way to describe it when the article makes clear no further questions were asked?

"No inquiry was made to check that bottle fed meant formula fed or otherwise to establish what was in the bottles being given to Izzah." In my view, there was no language barrier. No one asked the parents what actually was in the baby's bottles. #amp-readmore-target" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-…

@SophyRidgeSky Absolutely no surprises in todays report. I wish there was ‘new news’ so to speak but there isn’t. All of the @OckReview Immediate & Essential Actions (Shrewsbury) were endorsed by Govt & opposition parties in Mar 2022. Nowhere near enough has been done. Action is needed now!

Essential listening from three very brave women