A NHS hospital trust has admitted failings after a young mum died from sepsis two days after suffering a miscarriage. The Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust also admitted a breach of duty after Lorette Divers, 30, died after she miscarried at 12 weeks. She went to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield , South Yorks.
, after suffering from stomach pain and a high temperature, after suffering the miscarriage. Lorette was transferred to a gynaecology ward and a midwife considered she could have sepsis and needed to be seen by a doctor but she was never assessed. She had a procedure to remove foetal material but had to be resuscitated after she was found unresponsive afterwards and was taken for emergency surgery.
READ MORE: Mum missing for 117 days with son, 7, in breach of court order may have changed her appearance But the mum-of-two suffered a cardiac arrest and died just after 6pm on November 20, 2020 - just nine hours after being admitted. It is believed that as a result of miscarrying, she developed an infection which led to sepsis and the trust have admitted a breach of duty and several failings in her care. They also failed to suspect she had sepsis, administer intravenous antibiotics and arrange a blood test - which has left Lorette's mum Maxine heartbroken.
She said: "We still have concerns about what happened to Lorette and whether the hospital trust has actually learned from Lorette’s death. "These concerns are compounded by the Care Quality Com.
