By Hayley Robinson

A midwife has been suspended from practising for 12 months.

A panel for the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard how Lamberdina Gbinigie, from Sittingbourne, made a series of errors while working for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

The four-day hearing revealed how Gbinigie had to be supervised between November 2006 and April 2007 after she set up an expectant mother’s epidural line incorrectly on September 23, 2006.

But her foul-ups continued in June 2007, two months after her supervised work came to an end, when Gbinigie identified an abnormal heart rate for a patient’s unborn child and failed to turn on a foetal heartbeat monitor.

The patient was not referred to the midwife in charge or the registrar on duty and, in addition, she failed to document the mother and baby’s heart rate every 15 minutes.

Four days later on June 9, 2007, Gbinigie once again provided inadequate care for a patient by not documenting the mother’s and baby’s heart rate every 15 minutes.

Gbinigie admitted all the facts presented to the panel.

The council decided to impose a 12-month suspension order to ensure public protection.