JK Rowlings midwife allowed to practise in NHS again

By Stephen Adams Published: 5:44PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

She had been criminialized by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) last March.

A row had found her actions had put the baby at risk during the home H2O bieing born in Poole, Dorset, in Jul 2005.

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Among the findings, that she accepts, are that she did not lift out a full inner hearing of the mom for 4 hours, and took "no action" notwithstanding the baby carrying an strange heart beat. The child died fifteen hours after the mother, referred to as Patient A, was certified to hospital.

After the ruling, Mrs Purdue, 48, who had prior to helped broach dual of JK Rowling"s children, appealed to the High Court.

The NMC subsequently motionless to see again at the chastisement for her actions.

On Friday a uninformed NMC row motionless she could work for the NHS again. Instead of the anathema it imposed conditions of use on her for twelve months.

Jill Alderwick, from the NMC, said: "The bungle in this box was not counsel and was cramped to the government of a singular birth. We accept she honestly regrets what happened."

Mrs Purdue, an disciple of healthy births, said: "I fell short in this sold duration of caring and I won"t do it again.

"I accept the commentary of the prior row and determine that at the time my use was impaired.

"But I am right away intensely clever and I have had no vital problems prior to or given this really unhappy event.

"Because of it I am probably one of the safest midwives practising at the moment.

A orator for the Royal College of Midwives, that had upheld Mrs Purdue, welcomed the decision.

He said: "She has certified creation mistakes and a little sanctions are warranted, but we felt that the prior preference to set upon her off the register was undue and unduly harsh."