article_snippet.sent: In a damning report, Thor Dalhaug said an unsupervised junior surgeon tried to deliver the baby using forceps in an ‘unorthodox and unacceptable’ way.
article_snippet.sent: a coroner also concluded that senior managers at Lincoln County Hospital had tried to remove the fact that forceps had been used from an account of the birth.
article_snippet.sent: a damning report will come as a blow to the hospital, which has just been taken out of ‘special measures’.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Fisher also wrote that the ‘use of forceps in these circumstances was unorthodox and unacceptable’.
article_snippet.sent: Surgeons ‘neglected to make a full note of the circumstances’, Mr Fisher found.
article_snippet.sent: In particular’, Mr Fisher wrote, a doctor
article_snippet.sent: ‘was advised to amend the caesarean pro forma, to include the fact that forceps were used’.
article_snippet.sent: But a doctor was ‘dissuaded from doing so by senior management as a result of concerns as to how this would be perceived’.
highlights_snippet.sent: Unsupervised surgeon used forceps in an 'unacceptable' way, report said .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Senior managers then tried to remove the fact forceps had been used .