Martha ruleAn NHS security initiative that allows families and patients to take second opinion on their hospital care should also be rolled into maternity care in the UK, the founder of the plan has said.
Merop Mills said that the availability of Martha’s rule maternity care Women and their colleagues will worry about the care that they were getting “more and more voice”.
Ms. Mills and her husband started a campaign for initiative after their daughter Martha Died in King’s College Hospital After developing sepsis, in 2021 in Combervel, 13 years of age. His concerns about Martha’s deteriorating situation were brushed on one side.
A coroner later concluded that Martha is most likely that doctors were identified. Warning signs The septic shock and soon transferred it to intensive care.
Martha’s rule is now providing acute or short-term treatment in all English hospitals and already hundreds of patients benefit from potential life-saving changes in their treatment.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4 Today The program, Ms. Mills, said that she was calling for the expansion of the initiative to the rest of Britain, and also in maternal care.
He said: “We spend more on dealing with cases of medical negligence in this country – maternity cases – and much wrong with it.
“I believe this is because there are many cases where the voice of women is not heard.”
He said: “I would prefer to increase Martha’s rule to give a big voice to women or their families or partners.”
Deputy Chief Medical Officer in the Department of Health and Social Care, Dr. The National Director of Patient Safety in England, Dr. Aidan Fauler said that the government was already searching for options to provide Martha’s rule in maternal care settings.
“We return and we are already looking,” he told the BBC. “We must be piloting it in motherhood. It is a more complex area – not only those who give birth can deteriorate physically, but we have their children who can get spoiled – rather they can also be concerned about the progress of their labor, and it is a skill set, which may not be familiar with ITU, but we are to ensure that we keep three types in custody to ensure that three types.”
Calls for Martha’s rules to be introduced in Britain’s maternity care system come in weeks after a national investigation into “systemic” failures NHS Was launched by maternity care Government,
Families who have lost were “gallit” in search of truth, Health secretary Wes streeting Said in JuneSaying that “maternity units are failing, hospitals are failing, trusts are failing, regulators are failing” and “a lot of deer was passing”.
In 2020, An exposure by Independent In the Hospital of Nottingham University, spread over a decade, frequent evidence of poor care, in which families accused the staff of a cover up.
TestCombined jointly with Channel 4, 46 cases of infants were found which were left with permanent brain damage, 19 stilbirth and 15 deaths. Many families and employees came forward Independent With stories of failures by the trust.
In June this year, Detectives said A criminal investigation at Nottingham University Hospital was now focused on a corporate manual.
While the rule of Martha is already saving life, Ms. Mills said that “has also highlighted the need for a different, more similar types of doctors in this country.
“What the rule of Martha does, acts as a safety trap, formally or legitimately to challenge clinical decisions if you are worried that they have become wrong.”
When doctors or other medical staff make mistakes, it can mean less serious consequences for them. “It is a safety trap for doctors and clinical staff as it is for a patient,” Ms. Mills said.
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