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Family awarded £37m - One of the largest maternity negligence claims in NHS history



The NHS has been ordered to pay £37m in compensation to the parents of a brain-damaged child after one of the country's leading hospitals admitted it was at fault in a maternity negligence claim against it. 


The reason for the award is because the child at the centre of the £37m payout, who cannot be named for legal reasons suffered brain damage at birth due to maternity staff at the NHS trust not spotting he was in the breech position - meaning feet or buttocks first.


This should have been picked up before labour but once midwives recognised what was happening and his heart rate began to drop, his mother was rushed to surgery for an emergency caesarean section.


The delays in being born meant he was starved of oxygen for too long and suffered permanent brain damage, leaving him with complex disabilities and needing two carers during both night and day.


Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has admitted mistakes in how the boy’s birth was handled in 2013 which consequently left him severely disabled and needing round-the-clock care for the rest of his life.

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