Child C’s mother tells Thirlwall inquiry her family was ‘misled’ in a way that had ‘compounded our grief’
has said she feels “betrayed on every level” at being “kept in the dark” by hospital managers about his death.the Thirlwall inquiryThe witness said she wanted a face-to-face apology from Ian Harvey, the former medical director of the Countess ofhospital, whom she accused of putting a “whitewash gloss” over the sudden and unexpected death of her son in June 2015.
Giving evidence to the inquiry, chaired by Lady Justice Thirlwall, Child C’s mother said she had been “truly horrified” to discover only last year that other infants had died, or collapsed unexpectedly, around the same time as her son. She said it was “incredibly distressing” to read in the Chester Chronicle in July 2016 that an investigation had been launched into an increase in deaths on the neonatal unit, covering the time her son had died a year earlier.
She told the inquiry she made multiple attempts to discover the details of the investigations into her son’s death but felt “left in the dark”. She said she met Harvey, the then medical director, who told her that “minor learning points” had been raised but nothing that would have changed the outcome for her son.
She told the inquiry: “That absolutely horrified me how misled we had been in that meeting and how untrue the information was that we had been told. I felt completely betrayed on every level to be honest, as a human being sat with another human being.”
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