A FORMAL hearing into the conduct of two Barrow hospital midwives over the care they provided to a baby boy is set to conclude today.

A panel of experts appointed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council have heard evidence over the past week relating to the way Holly Parkinson and Lindsey Biggs, of Furness General Hospital, attended to Dalton baby Joshua Titcombe after his birth in 2008.

The newborn later died aged nine days old from a treatable infection.

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Both face being permanently struck off the national midwifery register if the case against them is proven.

Ms Biggs is said to have failed to conduct observations on Joshua over the course of three hours on October 27 that year, of failing to refer him to a paediatrician on account of his low temperature and of failing to record the care she provided.

Ms Parkinson is said to have failed to record the advice of a paediatrician, of failing to document the care she gave to Joshua and of failing to refer his low temperature to a doctor.

Their actions are said to have caused Joshua to lose a significant chance of survival.

An earlier hearing cleared them of actions which directly contributed to his death.

The pair were among a group of midwives criticised within the controversial Morecambe Bay Investigation Report which found Joshua was among 11 babies who died needlessly at Barrow's maternity unit between 2004 and 2013.