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Pre-inquest brief

Inappropriate use of intrapartum CTG guidance for antenatal monitoring

Organisation: Department of Health and Social Care · Generated: 27 Oct 2026

Recurance · recurance.com/chains/e928fa38c1b0822e

The earlier warning

Arthur Brockett-Deakins · 25 Feb 2014 · Andrew Harris, London (Inner South)

“When to escalate concerns about a CTG: With regard to not escalating an abnormal CTG that ran for about half an hour after augmentation of labour, reliance was placed by midwives on a clause of NICE Clinical Guidelines, Intrapartum Care, 2007”

judiciary.uk/…/arthur-brockett-deakins

What was promised

A published response was found, but no specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.

What recurred

  • 24 Sept 2014 · Isa Mushtaq · Sara Lewis · Closely related · confidence 0.80 (moderate)

The clearest link, quoted from both reports:

Earlier · Arthur Brockett-Deakins · 25 Feb 2014

“When to escalate concerns about a CTG: With regard to not escalating an abnormal CTG that ran for about half an hour after augmentation of labour, reliance was placed by midwives on a clause of NICE Clinical Guidelines, Intrapartum Care, 2007”

Later · Isa Mushtaq · 24 Sept 2014

“Reliance on the NICE guidance for intrapartum CTG monitoring to interpret antenatal CTG features is of limited value because:”

What happened next

No web check of the stated actions has been published for this chain.

Every quote is verified word for word against the original report on judiciary.uk. A link shows that a similar concern was raised again, not why. It is not a finding about any organisation or person.

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