Exclusive: Bundle of grief: urgent review into baby deaths at Blacktown Hospital | Kaubo
The unexpected deaths of four newborns at Blacktown Hospital in the past 18 months have triggered an urgent review of the hospital's childbirth procedures by the Western Sydney Local Health District.
"Any unexpected death of a baby before or shortly after birth is a terrible outcome for the family and requires a root-cause analysis as part of the critical health response," a spokeswoman for Mr Hazzard said."The minister has also requested urgent details of what arrangements have been put in place to support families in this situation and if no support has been offered it should be provided immediately," the spokeswoman said.
"It is essential that any adverse outcome is fully investigated and that, during the process, patients, their families and the hospital staff are fully supported." But despite a larger workload, staffing levels have not changed, leaving an increasingly junior staff overstretched and consultants spending the majority of their time at private hospitals, several healthcare staff told theSenior NSW obstetricians said potentially avoidable perinatal deaths should be rare in Australia's advanced healthcare system.
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