MEAG SAVES LIVES

  "...This morning strike force detectives met with Lorraine Long of Medical Error Action Group at NSW Police Force Headquarters at Parramatta.  Miss Long is continuing to work with detectives to prioritise matters for referral to the strike force." 

"At the National Forum on Coronial Information, Lorraine Long made the opening address to coroners on the importance of 'Linking coronial data nationally is a far more efficient and cost effective method than waiting some years for a trend or pattern to be discovered, probably by chance'..." 

Elijah was a happy baby...His parents took him to Emergency one Friday evening on a long weekend.  Elijah's mother knew something was terribly, terribly wrong.  After driving and flying around to five different hospitals in 3 states it would have been easier to just go home.  All refusing to listen to his mother's pleas, dismissed as a worrying new mother as if she didn't know her baby was unwell, Elijah arrived into expert hands eventually, but when it was all too late.  He did not reach his first birthday.   

A knock on MEAG's door for help.  Too late for baby Elijah but MEAG fought for investigation, accountability, production of records, before releasing the truth to the media and police.  MEAG revealed that the three hospitals in a row bungled.  Their medical incompetence and abject system failures directly contributed to Elijah's death.  An unnecessary death.  A preventable death.  A routine treatment.  A life lost forever.