Wakefield ultrasound clinic closed following incorrect miscarriage diagnoses

A Wakefield ultrasound clinic where some patients were incorrectly told they had miscarried and babies’ genders were incorrectly identified has been closed.

The Baby Ultrasound Clinic was rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors identified “significant safety concerns”.

Other issues included a lack of staff training and poor infection control.

According to a report following the inspection in May, inspectors raised a number of issues, including that the centre “did not provide mandatory training in key skills” and that staff “did not have the appropriate accredited safeguarding training or know how to recognise and report abuse.”

Inspectors also said “the service did not control infection risk well and some equipment was visibly dirty”.

Inspectors heard a number of complaints from women who had been given the incorrect gender for their child or had been wrongly told they had miscarried, adding that there was no record of scans being checked by a second sonographer, through the clinic claimed they were.

In a statement, Baby Ultrasound Clinic said the entre was operated as a franchise and managed by the franchisee, who is no longer there.

A spokesperson added “This particular clinic has been taken over by new management who are working on this location to get this to the high standard we expect all our clinics to work to.”

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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

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