Midwife found guilty of 30 claims of misconduct Warwick, 56, used heart monitoring equipment plugged into the mains near a woman in a birthing pool, and sprayed a bedbound patient's deodorant on to her armpits, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. As she approached a door she pulled the cot inside the metal frame and it slipped up and off the frame. Part of the cot fell on the floor and the baby fell flat down on its face. The panel accepts the cause of the accident was carelessness. Salim Hafejee, representing the NMC at the fitness to practise hearing, said: "The failings go beyond simply the lack of clinical care. There were failures around attitude and understanding and of concepts of care. Tactlessness, thoughtlessness and carelessness are all words which would fit very well. The panel was also told Warwick should have been using a hand-held battery-powered heart-monitoring device to check a baby's heartbeat while the mother was in a birthing pool. She became a midwife in 1993 but took a lengthy break from work and failed to take a return to practice course between May 2005 and April 2006. Warwick claimed the case against her was "fundamentally flawed" and compared it to the shootings in Cumbria carried out by Derrick Bird. She said: "In Cumbria there was a shooting by a taxi driver, that case had many scenes and each one was carefully examined by the police. That process should have been required of the NMC. I would have been better off in a magistrates" court." The NMC is expected to give its ruling on her fitness to practice today.