Call for childbirth care apology

Nov 18 2009

Health chiefs have been told to apologise to a woman for failing to adequately care for her when her disabled daughter was born.

The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Jim Martin said that better monitoring during labour may have enabled medics to detect signs that the baby was in distress earlier.

This could have led to the baby being born sooner and perhaps prevented the girl from developing cerebral palsy.