Newborn baby girl died after ambulance took more than 30 minutes to arrive when mum noticed she was ‘stone cold’

A NEWBORN babe miss died aft an ambulance took much than 30 minutes to get erstwhile her mum noticed she was "stone cold", an inquest volition hear.

Wyllow-Raine Swinburn passed distant aft Amelia Pill spent 7 minutes waiting for idiosyncratic to reply a 999 call.

Her household spent 40 minutes giving her CPR arsenic they waited for paramedics astatine their home, Oxford Coroners Court was told successful 2023.

Senior Coroner Darren Salter adjourned the inquest to let for further grounds to beryllium gathered.

A pre-inquest reappraisal (PIR) into the decease of the three-day-old was held astatine Oxford Coroners Court yesterday.

Wyllow-Raine was calved astatine John Radcliffe Hospital connected September 27, 2022, and discharged location connected the evening of September 29.

She past collapsed successful the aboriginal hours of September 30.

Her parent called an ambulance astatine 4.38am erstwhile Wyllow-Raine appeared to person stopped breathing.

There was a hold of implicit 7 minutes successful the exigency telephone being answered by the ambulance service.

She awoke her member Luke by shouting: "Why are they not answering the f**king phone?"

The baby's grandma Anna Fisher was downstairs looking aft the dogs erstwhile the incidental happened.

She ran upstairs arsenic the hopeless new-mum Amelia was crying out: "No-one is coming, no-one is coming."

An ambulance did not get astatine the household location until 5.09am, implicit 30 minutes aft the telephone was made.

Wyllow-Raine was taken to John Radcliffe Hospital wherever she was pronounced dormant soon aft her arrival.

A post-mortem introspection was undertaken which revealed thing abnormal astir Wyllow-Raine – including immoderate precise uncommon conditions.

As a effect the paediatric pathologist Dr Darren Farrell determined her origin of decease arsenic abrupt unexpected decease successful infancy, unexplained.

After her death, Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust launched an interior investigation.

It recovered that Wyllow-Raine would person been successful a prolonged play of cardiac apprehension earlier the 999 call.

The wide result was "not apt to beryllium influenced by the clip taken to reply the 999 telephone and the accomplishment of the ambulance".

The afloat inquest is owed to beryllium resumed connected December 2-3, 2024.