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Enfield newborn died due to care failings, inquest rules
- Senior coroner Andrew Walker concluded an inquest on Thursday, finding the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust failed Gemma Lomas by supporting an "unsafe home delivery" that resulted in her daughter Poppy Hope Lomas's death seven days after birth.
- Midwives encouraged Lomas to attempt a vaginal birth after Caesarean at home, but the trust failed to inform her of risks, violating Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists guidance requiring a "suitably staffed and equipped delivery suite."
- Midwife Sasha Field admitted an ambulance should have been called around 90 minutes before birth when the baby's heart rate slowed, yet staff failed to recognize these decelerations or manage an accumulation of risk factors.
- Walker issued four recommendations to the Department of Health and Social Care, including mandatory consent forms for unsafe home births, while the trust pledged to improve communication and midwifery training following investigation.
- "Today's finding confirmed what we have lived every single day," Lomas said after the inquest, expressing hope that sharing Poppy's story ensures "lessons will be learned and changes will be made.
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Mother who lost baby girl 'not told about dangers of natural home birth'
Poppy Hope Lomas who died at University College Hospital, in central London, on October 26 2022 (Picture: Family Handout/PA Wire) The mother of a baby who tragically died from complications from her natural home birth has told an inquest which ruled ‘Nothing will ever bring her back’. Poppy Hope Lomas was rushed to hospital when her heart rate dropped during the ‘unsafe home birth’ her mother insists she was encouraged by midwives to have. She w…
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