Marcus Coates-Walker, a member of our Clinical Negligence team has recently contributed an article for AvMA Lawyers Service November newsletter.

Over recent years we have seen several scandals related to maternity care. However, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, looks set to be the largest maternity care scandal in NHS history. The Ockenden report has not yet been published but inevitably the human cost of maternal deaths and brain damaged babies will be incalculable and the failure to learn lessons startling. Marcus considers some of the issues likely to come out of this report.

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