Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust has apologised, through its lawyer, after pleading guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment to new mum Sarah Andrews and her baby daughter, Wynter Andrews - who died just 23 minutes after birth at the Queen's Medical Centre. Two charges were pleaded guilty to on Wednesday morning, January 25, on the Trust's behalf at Nottingham Magistrates' Court concerning its "failure to provide safe care and treatment".
The two charges, the first prosecution ever for the Trust, which is a care provider to 7 million in the East Midlands, concerned hospital service users Sarah Andrews - Wynter's mother, and baby Wynter herself. Bernard Thorogood, the Trust's barrister, said: "Clearly the first thing that I must do on behalf of the Trust is to express its deepest regret and apology. To do so today is a reiteration of an apology made before.
"No words of mine and the Trust's can possibly be enough to pour sufficient oil on these difficult emotions for Mr and Mrs Andrews (who attended the hearing) and the family must be feeling. Quite a lot of what I have got to say will seem divorced from the terrible, deeply distressing events which have brought us here".
