The family of a Scottish teenager who developed cerebral palsy following a lack of oxygen have won a legal case against the NHS. Maisie Wilkie was born on April 6, 2010 at a midwifery led unit (MLU) in Perth.

She developed “permanent and profound” health injuries due to failings at the unit. Now aged 15, she suffers cognitive impairment, epilepsy, sight and hearing difficulties, is reliant on a wheelchair and can only eat via a tube, reports The Record.

Parents Claire and Alan Wilkie, from St Madoes, instructed lawyers at Edinburgh firm Irwin Mitchell to bring a medical negligence claim against NHS Tayside to hold them accountable and secure essential lifetime care and support for their daughter.

It went to an eight-day trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh as NHS Tayside fought

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