Baby died after being starved of oxygen while ‘midwives joked about eating Haribo’

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1. Friggin hell that’s awful. Why’re we only hearing about it a year later?

2. Its been a while since Kings Mill was in the news for medical negligence, at one point it was other month. Not to make light of the tragedy, just to say Kings Mill is dire.

3. > A Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch report found there was no allocated lead in the maternity triage department, so nobody had responsibility for assigning roles and managing workload.

   Ah so the staff took the opportunity to stand around chatting that night instead of working.

   > Mother Amelia Bradley, 26, said she called for help in agony several times but heard maternity staff chatting

   Not at all surprising. The attitude of some healthcare staff is that you’re overreacting and being annoying, especially if you’re a woman in pain. You’re just purposely ruining their day.

4. Ah, they’re just as callous and incompetent as NUH down the road then? Great. I won’t hold my breath for these staff members being struck off and prosecuted, they very rarely are.

   Don’t forget to clap your saucepans together everyone

5. If this was my kid I’d be swinging. Horrible sitaution, horrible staff

6. “It was nearly 40 minutes before Amelia and Theo were finally assessed, despite being the only patient in triage and Amelia’s concerns she was bleeding.”

   So they were the only critical patients but were still neglected. The absolute fucking state of King’s Mill…

7. >Amelia, who has applied to start a midwifery degree starting in September, said: “Following Theo’s death, Luke and I discussed how we wouldn’t ever want another family to have to go through what we’re going through.

   >“I want to honour Theo’s name and to use this awful experience to be an advocate for women and help deliver the best care and support that women should expect to receive.

   This is incredibly brave. I can’t imagine choosing to be around babies every day after enduring that trauma–perhaps even having to stand up to colleagues to avoid a similar scenario–but if she can manage it then she’ll probably be the most attentive midwife available and I hope that is healing for her.

8. We had the opposite experience. We had a midwife with us at all times for the entirety of our hospital stay. And when our baby stopped breathing they sent in an emergency response team of like 15 or so people within 30 seconds. Thankfully they were able to resuscitate our baby.

9. If anyone worked on a ward for a day or especially a night you would be terrified of what the NHS actually is now. This is everywhere in the country, the standard of care is shocking.

   I would actively go to a different hospital than the one I work at because I know how I’ll be treated. It’ll be the same at a different hospital but I’ll be ignorant to just how bad it is.

10. I strongly feel the NHS is due for a pay restoration along with a strong guidelines for accountability. Every time we start talking about the performance for our healthcare we end up with the statement “we are not paid enough”

    I say lets pay them what they want and also start performance reviews just as we have in the private sector.

11. A number of basic errors made – from the telephone assessment, to lack of prompt treatment when the Mother arrived.

    [https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/gross-hospital-failings-contributed-baby-9401222](https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/gross-hospital-failings-contributed-baby-9401222)

    From the Coroner –

    [https://www.judiciary.uk/prevention-of-future-death-reports/theo-bradley-prevention-of-future-deaths-report/](https://www.judiciary.uk/prevention-of-future-death-reports/theo-bradley-prevention-of-future-deaths-report/)

    *CORONER’S CONCERNS*

    *During the course of the inquest the evidence revealed matters giving rise to concern. In my opinion there is a risk that future deaths will occur unless action is taken. In the circumstances it is my statutory duty to report to you.*

    *The MATTERS OF CONCERN are as follows –*

    *1, The lack of prompt action when a woman presents with an antepartum haemorrhage (APH). This Inquest revealed a culture within the midwifery team of not acting promptly when there is vaginal bleeding in pregnancy. There was an assumption that there was a benign cause for bleeding, rather than assuming, until proven otherwise that there is a serious cause, such as an abruption, that may require immediate intervention.*

    *Well established APH Trust guidance was not followed.*

    *I set out that difficulty in effectively managing APH is also an accepted issue, for the neighbouring NUH NHS Trust , who are currently reviewing their guidance, and approach to managing APH.*

    *It is clearly a regional issue and may be a national one. I am not reassured that necessary actions to address these serious issues identified are in place.*

12. Not a surprise. Some of them can be awful.
    My childs mother refuses to have another child ever again because of the experience we had with the staff post birth.

13. Having family that have been in Birmingham children’s hospital the NHS is an absolute joke, people go on about how sacred it is.

    The NHS is shit and broken, I believe in Free Health care but the institution that is the NHS is diabolical. Shit staff, in my experience, even for adults and kids

14. We need Amazon style monitoring of these nurses. Seen too many failings myself but we’re too polite to say anything negative.

15. We’re not having a 2nd kid purely because the NHS experience was too traumatic the first time, wife almost died due to staff incompetence.

16. Relative of mine chose to go to a different hospital further away to have her baby when kings mill was closer because it had a poor reputation for maternity care at the time. Seems nothing has changed for 30 years

17. My brother in Christ if you are deliberately raising the population to be total cunts

18. I was in hospital for a month a few years ago and couldn’t believe the apathy of the nursing staff. One night an elderly lady fell out of bed and was shouting for help for a good 20 minutes. I pressed my bell for help to get their attention and they literally stepped over this old lady to get to me! I said that she needed help and the nurse just grunted and walked off! It was awful.

19. The envy of the world

    The reason this is allowed to happen is because no one foots the bill in events like this. In other counties, hospitals are private, state backed insurance pays, and in the event of negligence, it’s the owners who are liable

    Here, it’s ‘the NHS’ who is liable so why give a shit? Peak moral hazard.

20. The midwives on duty need to be held accountable. My postnatal NHS care was awful, and that’s the story I’ve heard from every other mum I’ve spoken with. Prenatal was great, but postnatal is universally abysmal. Something needs to change.

21. You have to be lucky to get proper service from NHS. Current NHS is far from fixing, and it should be privatezed. I understand everyone wants free healthcare but if you can not get a proper healthcare, it does not matter even it is free.

22. The experience my wife and I had during her childbirth was much the same, she had to have an emergency C-section, thankfully Mum & Baby are totally fine. However shortly after her operation the painkillers would wear off and we would ask for another dose per the 4hour requirement. We once asked 3 consecutive nurses/midwives for the overdue medication but nothing happened. I got up to go the nurses station and found them ALL in there, chatting and shooting the shit.

    Shocking. Our hospital was featured in a panoramic about the useless state of midwifery. I haven’t watched it because I fear it will bring up all the frustration from those few days in hospital.