Mum traumatised by Nottingham maternity failings gives birth to girl

A pistillate whose lad died aft failings successful a crisis-hit maternity portion has fixed commencement to a girl.

Kim Errington, 39, gave commencement to her girl Elfi astir 2 years aft she mislaid her lad Teddy, erstwhile helium was a time old.

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust said it had "learned lessons and implemented changes" arsenic a result.

It volition analyse however dozens of babies died oregon were injured astatine the trust's 2 hospitals, the Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital, wherever Teddy was born.

In December 2020, the trust's maternity services were rated inadequate with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) uncovering "several superior concerns".

Ms Errington said Elfi, who was calved successful November, was "gorgeous".

"She's a beautiful, chilled, blessed small baby," she said.

She said she had been "very anxious" astir the gestation but praised the attraction she had received astatine King's Mill, the infirmary wherever she chose to person her 2nd child, and is tally by Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust.

"Our attraction was amazing," she said.

"[It was] genuinely outstanding. There was not a azygous issue, not a chromatic near unturned.

"And I don't deliberation it was due to the fact that we were getting peculiar treatment. People were evidently alert of our concern and took other care."

She said Ms Ockenden's reappraisal meant she yet felt arsenic if her acquisition of losing Teddy was being taken seriously.

"We each felt specified relief," she said, recalling her absorption astatine Ms Ockenden's appointment.

"Now the large bulk of enactment is inactive to do.

"The infirmary [needs put] those changes successful spot and that's erstwhile we volition truly cognize whether we are being listened to.

"We've been fixed the accidental to conscionable the caller main executive, and I person taken him up connected that connection and look guardant to that meeting.

"But it's not a one-off; it's got to beryllium a continued practise of listening and reacting, not articulator service.

"Let's spot if immoderate existent alteration happens and we'll see."

Anthony May, main enforcement astatine the trust, has told the BBC: "We are committed to making the indispensable and sustainable improvements to our maternity services and proceed to prosecute afloat and openly with Donna Ockenden and her squad connected their autarkic review.

"We are not waiting for the reappraisal to reason earlier making changes and our unit person been moving hard to marque the indispensable improvements now."