Tribunal Midwife sues NHS over claims she was forced out for 'sexual' TikTok posts

A BRISTOL midwife is suing the NHS over claims she was forced from her job while exposing maternity shortcomings on TikTok.

- Tom BEVAN

Lara Basini-Millar, who worked at Southmead Hospital for 21 years, built up a huge social media following when she began posting about her concerns at the “worrying” way maternity services were being run.

But after using her TikTok account to air these grievances she was called in by hospital bosses for being “too sexual” and told she was “impersonating” being a midwife at the trust.

Lara, 45, who posts under the name midwifemillar, previously appeared on Channel 4’s One Born Every Minute and set up the TikTok channel initially to help women “believe in themselves”.

She claims a “clique” of fellow midwives then created a WhatsApp group chat to criticise her videos and subjected her to a “witch hunt”.

She is now launching legal action for unfair constructive dismissal by the North Bristol NHS Trust with a five-day tribunal taking place this week.

Speaking ahead of the hearing, Lara, of Yatton, said: “I wanted to speak up about things that were happening. Sometimes there would be a baby death, but I felt nothing was being done. They would focus on stuff that didn’t matter.”