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Nurse struck off for failing to give vitamin K to newborn

A newborn experienced a severe haemorrhage due to a nurse’s failure to administer vital vitamins following a home birth. Shadae Mullard, an on-call midwife from Liverpool Women’s Hospital’s home birth team, misled her colleagues about providing these crucial vitamins to the infant in 2021, leading to the baby’s hospitalisation. During a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise hearing,…