Mum is told to book a slot to deliver her dead baby after a Newcastle hospital wrongly sent her home
Danielle Brown, 31, who waited 90 minutes on her return to the Royal Victoria Infirmary before doctors were unable to detect a heartbeat, and was then sent home again still suffering from pre-eclampsia.
Danielle Brown, 31, a barista from North Shields, lost her daughter Maisie at 29 weeks after the Royal Victoria Infirmary discharged her despite a consultant's advice that she should remain in hospital until birth. When she later called the maternity unit with severe stomach cramps, staff dismissed her, telling her it was probably a stomach bug. She waited 90 minutes on her return before scans confirmed Maisie had died.
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has admitted a breach of duty, acknowledging Maisie would have survived had Brown not been wrongly sent home.
Brown and partner Anthony Miller, 34, had prepared a nursery and held a gender reveal party before the tragedy; she endured a 10-hour labour to deliver Maisie on February 17, 2023.
The trust has paid an undisclosed settlement to the family and apologised, but Brown said: 'Nobody explained what had happened to Maisie.'
