East Kent maternity deaths: 45 babies might have survived with better care, inquiry finds

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Up to 45 babies would have most likely survived if they had received better care at an NHS trust, an inquiry has found.

Infants died while others were left badly hurt as a result of failings at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

A "clear pattern" of "sub-optimal" care was uncovered by the report, which reviewed an 11-year period from 2009 at two hospitals in Margate and Ashford.

Mothers were also left injured, some died, and others were blamed for what happened to them in the latest maternity scandal to hit the NHS.

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NHS is like the health care system of Somalia or Afghanistan. Many friends have reported that the care treatment is totally useless. GP doctors ignoring your worries and then later apologised for that.

DardaniaLion
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Bet there is a nest of narcisstic doctors and nurses there - sack the main offenders and let caring nurses fill their places.

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As far as I'm concerned Her Majesty should decorate anyone determined to rid our land of the disabled

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Well done East Kent. Keep our land free of non-viables

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