Highland health chiefs apologise to woman for pregancy blunders
NHS Highland’s Chief Executive has apologised for the lack of appropriate care and advice given to a patient during her pregnancy in 2011.
Concerns were raised on behalf of the patient with the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman’s Office and they have carried out a detailed investigation.
The complaint was that the board failed to provide Ms A with an appropriate level of care during her pregnancy and subsequent delivery at Inverness' Raigmore Hospital in December 2011.
The name of the pregnant mother and the circumstances surrounding the case remain confidential.
NHS Highland has now received the Ombudsman’s Report which makes a number of recommendations.
The health board's chief executive Elaine Mead said: “We fully accept the recommendations made and I want to publicly apologise on behalf of NHS Highland for our failures in the care and treatment we provided.
“I deeply regret that we were unable to provide an appropriate level of care and advice and I recognise the significant distress this has caused.
"I have written to the complainant and have asked them to pass on how truly sorry we are about what happened.
“We fully accept the recommendations made in the report. We have already taken action on some of these and are continuing to look at ways to improve.”