“A couple have been threatened with legal action by a midwife after she tripped over a child’s buggy at their home while visiting their newborn twins.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Childbirth is claimed to be safer than ever. Yet the price paid by the NHS for deliveries going catastrophically wrong has risen 59 per cent to £259m – enough to fund the consultants and midwives needed to save thousands of babies and mothers from harm.”
The Independent, 8th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The NHS is facing £4.5bn in compensation claims over alleged blunders by midwives and doctors that have left babies suffering severe brain damage, The Observer can reveal.”
The Observer, 23rd September 2007
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
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