Due to lots of pointless spam registration, I’ve closed new membership on this site for now. I’ll sort out something better in the near future.

Just last month, the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) published 6 monthly safety incident reporting figures for NHS Trusts for April to September 2008. You can find the report for your trust here.
In these reports, the ‘flagship’ Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, which everybody in the NHS clinical governance system has been trying so hard [...]

The number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths every year in the UK is more than twice the number of deaths on UK roads. While road safety attracts a huge amount of attention, resources and legislation, perinatal mortality still tends to be regarded as an unhappy fact of life about which little can be done.
But [...]

Our little man, George was born at 29 +6 weeks on News Years Day 2008. Up until that day the preganancy had been pretty uneventful (problem wise that is) but going into sudden labour was about to change all of that. New Years Eve 2007 was the first for a long time that i had [...]

This extended quotation is from a discussion about patient safety by Dr Michael J Powers QC. It explains some of the legal background to the right to a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding a negligent death.
“When a death suspected to have resulted from poor medical practice/care occurs, the coroner’s inquest is very often [...]

After the death of our baby, we spent the next two weeks up at the hospital while his mother began recovering from the difficult birth, and then fighting off an unidentified infection acquired during the caesarean (probably group b strep, as it turns out).  As if things could possibly be worse than loosing a baby, she [...]

UK Sands (the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity) is currently running a campaign called “Why 17?”. The idea is to raise awareness of the average 17 stillbirths and neonatal deaths that occur every day in the UK. They are calling for

recognition that stillbirth and neonatal death is a national problem and not [...]