article_snippet: An investigation into a hospital where four women died in 12 months before or during childbirth has found a series of concerns, An investigation into a hospital where four women died in 12 months before or during childbirth has been revealed.
article_snippet: staff at Homerton Hospital, Hackney report identified common themes in some but not all of Four deaths, including a lack of involvement from consultants.
article_snippet: The findings came after two unannounced inspections by the Care Quality Commission, following the death of a fifth woman in January this year, reports the Evening Standard.
article_snippet: The first fatality occurred in 2013, when Pat Williams passed away following a Caesarean section procedure which Pat Williams elected to have.
article_snippet: Adeline Keh, 40, was the next to die in October the same year after Pat Williams contracted a fatal infection following a Caesarean at Homerton.
article_snippet: It was listed as a cause of death alongside acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and an infection of the Caesarean wound.
article_snippet: The third and fourth deaths occurred in March and June last year, at which point the CQC began investigating, and the London clinical senate was called in after a fifth death in January last year.
article_snippet: Such deaths are extremely rare - therefore the London clinical senate was viewed as unusual for a single hospital to have so many deaths in a short period.
article_snippet: Adeline Keh, 40, was one of five to die at the hospital, four of which perished in 12 months.
article_snippet: She contracted an infection after a Caesarean, and refused a blood transfusion because She was a Jehova's Witness .
article_snippet: In the whole of England and Wales in 2013 there were just 47 maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the six-week period following birth - out of almost 700,000 deliveries.
highlights_snippet: Four deaths occurred from July 2013 to June 2014 at Homerton Hospital .
  
highlights_snippet: Fifth woman passed away in January this year after giving birth there .
  
highlights_snippet: NHS report found common themes in some but not all of Four deaths .
  