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As well as brain damage, she had a fractured skull and extensive bruising to her face, limbs and body.

Treatment also includes anti-seizure medication and sedatives, which also help with controlling seizures so they don’t worsen in intensity and duration and result in permanent brain damage.

Former prop Will Green said he was pressured to sign up to the litigation even after a second scan, arranged independently of the legal action, found no signs of brain damage.

This, he said, further contributed to the infant's brain damage.

Among the families at the meeting was Sarah, whose son Ryan was left with brain damage due to the poor care he received at Nottingham City Hospital as a newborn baby.