{"id":679766,"date":"2026-07-08T04:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679766\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:45:34","slug":"leeds-general-infirmary-midwives-actions-before-babys-death-scrutinised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679766\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds General Infirmary midwives’ actions before baby’s death scrutinised"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fitness to practise hearing has begun for two midwives involved in the care of a mother whose baby died 27 minutes after she was born.<\/p>\n

Fiona Winser-Ramm and Dan Ramm’s daughter, Aliona, died at Leeds General Infirmary in the early hours of 1 January 2020.<\/p>\n

A 2023 inquest previously found there were “a number of gross failures of the most basic nature that directly contributed to Aliona’s death”.<\/p>\n

Giving evidence at the start of the Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing into Ruksana Bibi and Yasmin Karolia on Wednesday, Winser-Ramm said: “There isn’t an inch of my life that hasn’t been destroyed or seriously damaged since the death of my daughter.”<\/p>\n

Winser-Ramm and her husband were among a group of bereaved and harmed families who successfully campaigned for an independent inquiry<\/a> into “repeated failures” at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s maternity units.<\/p>\n

The Trust previously said it was already “taking significant steps to address improvements”.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of her evidence, Winser-Ramm held up a photo of her daughter and said: “I want people to remember she is not a case number, she is not a poor outcome, she is not a piece of paper sitting on your desk, but she is our perfect daughter.”<\/p>\n

She added: “All that I wanted, expected or had the right to receive was good quality care, treatment and to take my daughter home.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t even receive the absolute basics of care.”<\/p>\n

Winser-Ramm told the hearing she had phoned Bibi after noticing a discharge which concerned her.<\/p>\n

She said: “Something didn’t feel right about the situation. However, I was met with no concern [and] no suggestion about what it could be.<\/p>\n

“When you are a woman in labour for the first time you believe in everything, and have trust in everything, by the people you believe are the experts.”<\/p>\n

A call record said Winser-Ramm had not reported spontaneous rupture of membranes (SROM) – a sign she was going into labour – which the witness said was “absolutely not true”.<\/p>\n

Having initially been told to stay at home, Winser-Ramm was later told to come into hospital for an assessment after speaking to another healthcare professional.<\/p>\n

While in hospital, her baby’s heart rate was categorised as pathological or abnormal using a cardiotocograph (CTG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fitness to practise hearing has begun for two midwives involved in the care of a mother whose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}