NHS Hospital Admits Liability Following Death of Baby Boy

A hospital in Greater Manchester has admitted liability after the death of a baby boy following a failed forceps delivery.

Pennine Acute NHS Trust has admitted the death of baby Thomas Beaty, who died at The Royal Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester, was as a result of head injuries sustained from repeated use of forceps and being pushed back into the womb. Baby Thomas survived for just 26 hours following an emergency Caesarean section after five failed attempts to deliver him using forceps.

Gill Harris, Chief Nurse at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said:

"We would like to offer our sincere apologies to the Beaty family for the standard of care that Thomas received during his delivery at The Royal Oldham Hospital on 12 April, 2014 and the tragic circumstances surrounding his death.

"Since then we have introduced a maternity services improvement plan, we have introduced new guidelines around the use of forceps during delivery and the staff involved have been retrained.

"We deliver around 10,000 babies each year at our maternity units at The Royal Oldham Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital and I would like to reassure the public that our maternity services at our hospitals are safe.

"If any expectant mother has a concern then they should contact and speak in confidence with their designated midwife."

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