Serious errors from senior staff members at Bassetlaw Hospital led to the death of a "kind and caring" mum after she gave birth, an inquest has found. Jade Hart, who was originally from Pontefract in West Yorkshire, gave birth to her son Hugo just after 10pm on July 8, 2018, at the hospital in Worksop.
Hours later, in the early hours of July 9, she died, having suffered a uterine inversion, a rare complication in which the uterus turns partially or completely inside out. An inquest at Nottingham Coroner's Court has concluded this occurred as a result of mistakes carried out by one of her doctors and a midwife at the hospital.
The 33-year-old's umbilical cord was found to have been pulled at least four times by a doctor when her placenta had not separated, an action which Assistant Coroner Dr Elizabeth Didcock labelled as "a very serious omission of care" and led to Mrs Hart's death. Mrs Hart suffered multiple cardiac arrests and would not have died if it were not for the uterine inversion, the inquest found.
