Hospital bosses have said sorry after a grieving mother was handed a leaflet and told to book a slot to give birth after her unborn baby died following a string of medical errors.
Danielle Brown, 31, was seven months pregnant when she was wrongly discharged from hospital, despite having been diagnosed with a potentially deadly pregnancy complication.
Her baby died the following day, but the first-time mother was then palmed off with a leaflet suuggesting ‘no compassion’ nor explanation of what had happened.
Ms Brown attended Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington on February 12, 2023, after waking with swelling to her face,
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