Our newborn died due to NHS errors — we were treated with contempt

For the past three years, Ryan Parker and Emmie Studencki should have been watching their baby son Quinn grow up. He would be almost four now, preparing to start school in the autumn and playing with his sisters Ajla and Hazel.

Instead, the couple from Barrowby, Lincolnshire, have faced an “inhumane” battle with the NHS and its regulator to get justice for Quinn. He died in July 2021 from care so bad it has now been judged criminal.

Quinn died after being starved of oxygen because his mother suffered a placental abruption. In the preceding week, staff failed to give his parents crucial safety information and signs to look out for. Medical notes include reference to a suspicion of a placental abruption but they were not told this was the working diagnosis when his mother was sent home.

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Source: The Times, 16 February 2025