Poor maternity care is costing more than £1million a day in compensation, NHS figures show.
Payouts for blunders during birth have totalled more than £4billion over the past decade, with as many as four in ten maternity units failing to meet basic safety standards.
The number of obstetric claims in England has almost doubled during the same period, from 391 in 2009/10 to 765 in 2019/20.
Holly Greenhow, pictured her her mother Fiona, left, was starved of oxygen for some 35 minutes when she was born at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire
In July 2018 the High Court awarded Holly, then 12, a £6.4million lump sum, with annual payments expected to take the total compensation to more than £15million over her lifetime
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