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An agency midwife has been reported to the nursing regulator after a coroner raised concerns over a baby's death.

Raniya Khan died in May 2020, 19 days after she was born at Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading.

Senior Berkshire Coroner Heidi Connor said the labour was not properly monitored, although the failures may not have caused the death.

The hospital said it complied with the coroner's instruction to refer the case to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

In a Prevention of Future Deaths Report, Mrs Connor said the band 6 midwife, who she did not name, failed to recognise signs of ill health on the fetal trace.

She also did not conduct proper re. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.

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