8 results for ‘Healthcare and Safety Investigation Branch’
As a Child Brain Injury solicitor, I work closely with parents of children who have sustained devastating brain injuries at birth. Most of these parents come to us because they want to get answers such as: What happened to my…
The Independent has reported that the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (‘HSIB’) has investigated whether changes to maternity services during the pandemic affected care given to women who went on to have stillborn babies. The HSIB particularly considered the mandatory redeployment…
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has been investigating maternity care provided at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust since July 2018. There have been a number of babies that have died. The hospitals under investigation are William Harvey…
The upsetting BBC Panorama episode that aired on 29 January 2024 described the tragic, avoidable deaths of two babies: Jasper White and Margot Bowtell, who died after complications during delivery at Cheltenham (Aveta) Birth Centre. The episode focussed on maternity…
As specialist child brain injury lawyers, some of our clients’ cases are being investigated under the NHS Early Notification Scheme. As a government-run scheme, scrutinising the actions of a state institution, it is only fair to consider whether the scheme…
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) maternity investigation programme was set up in 2018 to independently investigate harm and deaths in maternity units in England; the goal being to make maternity care safer. Channel 4’s May 2023 investigation, based on…
On 22 September 2021 the government launched a Call for Evidence on behalf of the Health and Social Care Committee entitled NHS Litigation Reform. They said: “The Committee has launched a new inquiry to examine the case for the reform…
Today marks the anniversary of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) report into Group B Streptococcus (GBS). The HSIB is a body which investigates areas of medical practice that are posing a risk to patient safety. They prepare reports of…
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