Boy who suffered brain damage due to Harrogate hospital failings to get £10m

Boy who suffered brain damage due to Harrogate hospital failings to get £10m Kit van Berckel suffered significant brain injury at his birth in 2008 after medical staff failed to recognise that he was in distress

A six-year-old boy with cerebral palsy is to receive a £10m care and rehabilitation package from Harrogate hospital NHS trust after it admitted failing to provide proper care during his birth that resulted in devastating neurological injuries.

Kit van Berckel, from Harrogate, north Yorkshire, was born without a heartbeat and needed resuscitating after medical staff failed to recognise that he was in distress for a prolonged period of time when his mother, Joanna, was admitted to hospital on 31 May 2008, 10 days over her due date. Continue reading... The Guardian