Midwife struck off after 40 years

A senior midwife who failed to alert a specialist to the abnormal heart rate of a baby who needed to be resuscitated after being born has been struck off. Christine Garvey was caring for a mother in labour at the Kettering General Hospital when she failed to raise the alarm that the baby’s heartbeat was abnormal. Garvey took the infant to another room to be resuscitated, leaving the traumatised mother with an undelivered placenta alone against hospital rules on 12…