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Jodi Newton

NHS Maternity Failures: Nottingham Ockenden Report 2026

Nottingham maternity negligence: what the Ockenden Report means for affected families The Independent Maternity Review into maternity services at Nottingham...

Nicholas Leahy of Osbornes Law interviewed on BBC South East Today about maternity care at University Hospitals Sussex

Jodi Newton

Sussex maternity review: scope confirmed and more than 1,000...

First published 15 April 2026 · Updated 22 May 2026 In April 2026, the government announced that senior midwife Donna Ockenden would lead an independent review...

Jodi Newton

New Report Exposes Fundamental Failures in NHS Maternity...

Baroness Amos’ interim report lays bare a maternity system “not working for women, babies and families.” Last week the government-commissioned...

Jodi Newton

HSSIB Review Exposes NHS Maternity Failures

Patient safety body HSSIB publishes exploratory review of maternity and neonatal services As Head of Paediatric and Birth Negligence cases...

Nicholas Leahy

Report highlights failings in maternity care

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recently carried out a national review of 131 maternity inspections between 2022 and 2024, finding that failures...

Jodi Newton

Maternity and Neonatal Scandals: Lessons Learned

Will investigations into NHS maternity services lead to real change? Over the past 15 to 20 years, NHS maternity services have come...

Jodi Newton

Hyponatraemia – Symptoms, Causes & Negligence

What is hyponatraemia? Hyponatraemia is a condition where sodium levels fall below a certain level, which can be dangerous. All...

Jodi Newton

Private Pregnancy Scans and Substandard Care

In the news, it has been reported that private clinics that offer pregnancy scans to women are not meeting the...

Jodi Newton

Are maternity services safe? – Part 2

In April last year I wrote a piece about government setting up a taskforce to look into why there are...

Pregnant woman performing cardiotocography CTG

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Poor interpretation of CTG can result in stillbirth...

Poor interpretation of a Cardiotocograph, more commonly known as a CTG, is a leading cause of stillbirth and brain injuries...

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Women from ethnic minorities experience worse maternity care

It has been reported today that the government has set up a new task force to look into why there...

Jodi Newton

NICE revises guidelines on Induced labour

Most babies are born naturally at around 40 weeks gestation. However, some pregnancies continue for longer. According to data from the...

Jodi Newton

Impacted Fetal Head During Labour

According to the World Health Organisation, labour is considered obstructed when the fetus cannot progress along the birth canal, despite...

Jodi Newton

Review of poor maternity care at Basildon Hospital

At Osbornes our specialist medical negligence solicitors represent a number of women who have been affected by poor maternity care...

Jodi Newton

Parental Bereavement Leave & Pay

What is Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay? Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay is something that many parents will not be...

Jodi Newton

Three-Year-Old Takes First Steps Against the Odds

A three-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, who doctors believed would never walk, took her first steps on the first day...

Sodium Valproate Claims

Link found between Sodium Valproate and abnormalities in newborn babies Sodium Valproate, a powerful epilepsy drug prescribed in the UK...

Jodi Newton

Doppler scan could prevent half of stillbirths

Doppler scans could prevent as many as 2000 stillbirths per year The press has reported that as many as half of...