Our client, Ms C, a young woman from Medway became pregnant with her first child in 2016. There was nothing abnormal on any of the early ante – natal scans and Ms C was classed as a “low risk pregnancy”.Continue reading this article
9th September 2020 – Our client Mrs B from Staffordshire gave birth to her second child in December 2014.
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28th April 2020 – Our client, a 32-year-old woman from Kent, was admitted to the Medway Maritime Hospital on 01.08.16, at 26 weeks pregnant, a spontaneous rupture of membranes.
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1st April 2020 – Our client Mrs K, from the home – counties, gave birth to her second child in January 2016, 12 days past her due date. Her sole risk factor was retained placenta, which had occurred at the birth of her first child.
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31st January’20 – Our client, a 27 year old woman from Broadstairs, was under the care of the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust throughout her first pregnancy. Her antenatal care was provided by Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital, Margate (QEQM) who informed her that she was carrying twins.
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6th November’19 – Our client, Ms A of Kent, instructed Fairweathers to pursue a clinical negligence claim arising from a repair to a second degree tear sustained during child birth in September 2017.
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10th July 2019 – Our client Mrs H from Canterbury gave birth to her second child in November 2013 at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in Margate and post birth a lobe of placenta was noted in the lower uterus.
18th June 2019 – Our client, Ms T, brought a clinical negligence claim as a result of the substandard treatment that she received during the delivery of her first child at the Darent Valley Hospital, near Dartford, Kent on 23.06.2016.
12th April’19 – Our client, CP (aged 31) from Ramsgate, Kent, gave birth to her son, MJ, at Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Hospital, Margate on 8th July 2012.
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In brief
Francesca Beach examines proposed Coronial reform and other investigatory changes surrounding stillbirths