An investigation by Legal Expert has revealed that the five main trusts across the county have had 152 such claims lodged against them since 2019. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has paid out the highest amount totalling £32m, followed by East Lancashire Hospital Trust which forked out £24m. Advertisement Advertisement Sign up to our daily newsletter Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Lancaster Guardian, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
Lancashire Teach Hospital Trust paid £19m, while University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay paid £17m. South and Ormskirk Trust also £4m - not including legal costs. Vanessa Wilson, director of children, young people and maternity for NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, said: “Safe patient care is the highest priority for all NHS trusts across Lancashire and South Cumbria, with robust processes in place to ensure we learn from the experiences of patients if their experience does not meet our high standards.
“Collaborative work is taking place across our maternity and women and children’s services to draw from these experiences and make improvements to the standards and quality of care.” The research was conducted in the wake of the UK’s first-ever parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma earlier this year which heard harrowing evidence from 1,300 women. Advertisement Advertisement Some said they were left in blood-soaked sheets while others said their children had s.