An anonymous whistleblower contacted regulators raising concerns about baby deaths at the trust which runs the Royal Lancaster Infirmary just days after Ida Lock was born there.
Baby Ida was born at the RLI on November 9 in 2019. There had been several failings in the care provided to Ida and her mum Sarah Robinson, from Morecambe, but the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust's own investigations concluded in a "self-congratulatory" manner and found that "everything went well".
A independent report by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch later found that there had been care delivery failings in Ida's care. Midwives failed to escalate concerns about Ida's heartrate and, after she was delivered, failed to give effective resuscitation. Ida died six days later after being transferred to the Royal Preston Hospital.
An ongoing inquest into Ida's death heard that on December 13 in 2019, less than a month after Ida died, a nurse wrote to regulators including the Care Quality Commission, the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Monitor, expressing concerns about patient safety and deaths of babies at the trust.
In their letter the unnamed nurse references how "systems failed" during the leadership of former Chief Executive Tony Halsall who was in post from 2007 until 2012 when several babies died at Furness General Hospital. He was followed by Dame Jackie Daniel, under whose oversight the whistle-blower said "performance improved".
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