A few notes on this, since I looked at it a little:<p>The grand-father is: <a href="https://twitter.com/DerekRKENT" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/DerekRKENT</a> - Derek Richford (in Kent)<p>Derek has indicated that he needs a break from this, and would not be the appropriate contact: "It is time for me to hand over the baton of maternity safety to others." - Oct 19, <a href="https://twitter.com/DerekRKENT/status/1582723405769740291" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/DerekRKENT/status/1582723405769740291</a><p>The website associated with Harry Richford, and Derek Richford's investigation and weblogging is: <a href="http://harrysstory.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://harrysstory.co.uk/</a><p>It looks like <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCMBuchanan" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/BBCMBuchanan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesmelley" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/jamesmelley</a> are the current BBC journalists investigating this issue.
Tragic story, though I feel the headline quote is a little underselling the true horror, since the issue had previously been investigated and noted as needing improvements and then later deaths were (intentionally?) covered up by misfiling them.
Oh, I'm sure plenty of people "joined the dots", but they just didn't care.<p>Some bureaucrats are absolute trash when it comes to their ethics.
"To compound the family's distress, the neonatal team then failed to properly carry out a vital resuscitation procedure on Harry, struggling for 26 minutes to insert a life support tube."<p>My son was born 3 months premature 16 years ago. In US hospitals, insertion of vent tubes and other things like this when a baby is first born is handled by specialized technicians. They have a lot of training like nurses do, but they aren't technically nurses. They are called "respiratory technicians". Along with the nurses, they are EXPERTS at doing these procedures on tiny infants. They practice on dummies constantly. I spoke to a few (one of whom saved my son's life) over a period of weeks while my son was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the hospital in North Carolina he was born in.<p>Just stating this, because something that I learned from British parents is that NHS hospitals, while excelling in providing affordable care for general issues, are lacking in highly trained specialists who can insert a breathing tube in an infant in literally seconds due to having practiced it obsessively for years. NHS NICUs also lag behind American NICUs in having the latest equipment. The tradeoff of course is that American NICUs are orders of magnitude more expensive, and that is a very important point to emphasize.
No details on what actually caused Harry's death and why the hospital tried to cover it up? Why did Harry need a resuscitation in the first place?