District Judge Leong highlighted "critical failures" in care as she said the purpose of the sentencing hearing, in which she was limited to imposing a fine, was to "ensure the trust responsible is held to account and meaningful steps are taken to prevent such failures in the care of mothers and their babies, while recognising the harm caused".
The parents of a girl who died within minutes of being born have called for an independent investigation into an NHS trust fined £1.6m for failing to provide safe care and treatment to three other babies who died.
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust pleaded guilty to six charges of failing to provide safe care and treatment to the three children and their mothers at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The charges were related to the deaths of Adele O'Sullivan, who was 26 minutes old when she died on 7 April 2021, four-day-old Kahlani Rawson, who died on 15 June 2021, and Quinn Parker, who was one day old when he died on 16 July 2021.
In a statement released after the hearing, NUH chief executive Anthony May said: "The mothers and families of these babies have had to endure things that no family should after the care provided by our hospitals failed them, and for that I am truly sorry.
