RICH (A PROTECTED PARTY BY HER MOTHER AND LITIGATION FRIEND, RICH) v HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST

[2016] Med LR 33

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

Before Mr Justice Jay

Clinical negligence – Obstetric negligence – Premature delivery – Development of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and brain damage – Standard of obstetric care in 1993 – Whether failure to consider antenatal corticosteroid therapy – Whether antenatal corticosteroid therapy would have avoided RDS and brain damage – Whether RDS and brain damage materially contributed to by failure to provide antenatal corticosteroid therapy.