Ida Lock inquest: ‘No intentional deceit’ over baby’s hospital care report
In June 2020 they had a meeting with Carol Carlile, who was then the hospital’s head of midwifery.
Now known as Carol Bell, she told them she was not going to make excuses, acknowledged that Ida’s care had not been good enough, and said the delivery team should not have been congratulating themselves.
Giving evidence at the inquest, Mrs Bell said: “On reflection I wasn’t the best person to go into the complaints meeting because I had signed off the root cause analysis.”
Counsel to the inquest, Sophie Cartwright KC, asked: “When you gave your account to the family, did you not think you should have been saying you were part of the team that reviewed that self-congratulatory root cause analysis?
“So the family understood the head of midwifery sat in front of them had been part of the system that had approved a report that was wholly inadequate?”
Mrs Bell replied: “Yes, I should.”
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