Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust has been told by the CQC to take urgent action to protect women and babies from harm.

Nailah Ally, was diagnosed with Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC) – a serious illness which sees the gut become inflamed and start to die – shortly after her birth in October 2019. She developed feeding issues as well as a swollen stomach and had to be fed via a tube.

An independent maternity review conducted by the Health and Safety Investigation Bureau (HSIB) (an organisation created to investigate patient care), has found that the deaths of three women whilst under the care of Royal Derby Hospital, part of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, over the period January 2021 to May 2022 may have been preventable.

On Friday 27 January 2023, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) were fined £800,000 following the criminal prosecution brought by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), for their series of failures to provide safe care to both Wynter and Sarah Andrews. 

It has recently been reported that two NHS Trusts – Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – have paid millions in damages relating to two claims involving children. 

Nottingham Magistrates Court handed down their sentence to Nottingham University Hospital Trust for the failures that led to Wynter Andrews’ death.

Nottingham University Hospitals Trust pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to provide safe care and treatment to Sarah Andrews and her baby Wynter.

Midwife, Gemma Bentley and her husband, sadly lost their baby following negligent care provided by the Trust she works within.