'Private scans missed my son's brain abnormalities'

A mother from Surrey is warning pregnant women not to rely solely on private maternity clinic scans after her son was born with severe brain problems.

Lucas, now five, has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, visual impairments and a number of other conditions, which his mother, Charlotte, said were not detected in scans she had at a private clinic.

The mother-of-three, from Camberley, said: "I believed the wellbeing scans were comprehensive, that anything the NHS scans would find would be picked up by them too. But that isn't the case."

Sonography is not legally regulated but sonographers can voluntarily join an industry register, meaning patients can check if they meet professional standards.