Leading Clinical Negligence Lawyers Call For Trust To Be More Transparent After Local Paper Unearthed ‘Secret’ Report

A premature baby was left to die alone in a room used for emptying bed pans by hospital staff, a damning ‘secret’ report has revealed.

A review of Royal Oldham Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust revealed a catalogue of other “unacceptable situations” where babies and mothers suffered due to poor medical decisions and lack of facilities.

Among the report’s shocking revelations was the case of a mother misdiagnosed with mental health issues who was in fact suffering from a “catastrophic haemorrhage”. She later died.

But in perhaps the most harrowing incident, a baby born at 22 weeks and six days, just below the legal age of viability, was placed in a Moses basket and “left in the sluice room to die alone,” instead of with her mother.

The internal report, exposed by the Manchester Evening News, found mothers suffered “unacceptable risk” and that long-term failings led to “high levels of harm for babies”.

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