{"id":1711,"date":"2021-06-24T15:18:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2021-06-24T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:18:58","slug":"east-kent-hospitals-university-nhsft-prosecuted-cqc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/east-kent-hospitals-university-nhsft-prosecuted-cqc\/","title":{"rendered":"East Kent Hospitals University NHSFT Prosecuted by CQC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Care Quality Commission has revealed that East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been fined in excess of \u00a3700,000 for failing to provide safe care to its patients.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution related specifically to the case of Sarah Rochford whose new-born son, Harry, died following what is described as \u2018a series of events\u2019 during the birth. <\/p>\n<p>The Trust had admitted failing to provide safe care and treatment \u2018resulting in avoidable harm\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy chief inspector of hospitals, Nigel Acheson is reported as observing that \u201cthe series of events which led up to Harry\u2019s death could and should have been avoided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A government enquiry into the quality of maternity care in England is on-going.<\/p>\n<p>Speak to a solicitor<\/p>\n<p>If you or a loved one are struggling with the long-term impact of a significant failing in maternity care, contact Glynns, specialists in medical negligence compensation, to talk to a solicitor about the suitability of making a claim.<\/p>\n<p>Please call us on <a href=\"tel:0800 234 3300\">0800 234 3300<\/a> (or from a mobile <a href=\"tel:01275 334030\">01275 334030<\/a>) or complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><strong>Online Enquiry Form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/images\/FreeClaims-top.gif\" alt=\"Free enquiry\" width=\"199\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Care Quality Commission has revealed that East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been fined in excess of \u00a3700,000 for failing to provide safe care to its patients. The prosecution related specifically to the case of Sarah Rochford whose new-born son, Harry, died following what is described as \u2018a series of events\u2019 during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1436],"tags":[1557,1377],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maternity-care","tag-east-kent-maternity-services","tag-maternity-care-failings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}