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Thu 23-Oct-2025, Microsoft Teams
A focused lunchtime webinar for clinical negligence solicitors, exploring breach and causation in obstetric birth injury claims. Led by Consultant Obstetrician Dr Lorna Phelan, with practical insight into CTG errors, system failures, and decision-making under pressure.
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Practical insights for clinical negligence solicitors on assessing breach and causation in obstetric birth injury claims, with a focus on CTG interpretation, decision-making, and system failures.
Do you know how to identify breach and causation in obstetric birth injury claims?
Poor intrapartum decision-making remains a leading cause of clinical negligence claims in maternity care, often resulting in catastrophic outcomes such as hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE), stillbirth, and neonatal brain injury.
INNEG invites you to this free lunchtime webinar with Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Dr Lorna Phelan, who will share her expert insight into high-risk obstetric care, CTG interpretation, and the systems failures that lead to avoidable birth injury.
With over 800 medico-legal reports to her name and 17 years in maternity risk management, Dr Phelan will explore how critical clinical decisions are made under pressure and what solicitors need to understand when handling complex maternity cases.
This session will help you to:
- Understand the key decision points during labour and delivery that carry the highest medico-legal risk
- Recognise common breach issues in CTG interpretation, failure to escalate, and delayed caesarean sections
- Assess causation in relation to intrapartum events, fetal compromise, and long-term outcomes
- Explore how governance processes and human factors contribute to system-wide failures in maternity care
- Strengthen your approach to obstetric birth injury claims involving brain injury, stillbirth or neonatal death
About the Speaker
Dr Lorna Phelan
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Dr Lorna Phelan is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where she has practised for over 30 years. She has specialist expertise in intrapartum care, high-risk obstetrics, and maternity clinical governance, and currently leads on CTG training and interpretation for the Trust. As Imperial’s divisional lead for medico-legal cases, Dr Phelan has authored over 800 expert witness reports and regularly lectures for NHS Resolution and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Her leadership roles have included Labour Ward Lead, Audit Lead, Simulation and Skills Lead, and Maternity Risk Lead across one of the UK’s largest NHS trusts. She is an expert in root cause analysis, human factors, and maternity risk management, with a national reputation for improving decision-making and training in obstetric emergencies.
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