By Professor Jeremy Howick

Today, Donna Ockenden has published her report into maternity failures at Nottingham University Hospitals, the largest independent inquiry of its kind in NHS history, covering 2,500 families.

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It has taken four years, and it tells us, in devastating detail, what we already knew.

Too few staff. Inadequate training. A culture of not listening to women. Concerns dismissed. Mistakes covered up. These are the same findings as the Morecambe Bay inquiry in 2015. The same findings as Shrewsbury in 2022. The same findings as East Kent, the same year. Ockenden herself has said that if the 2015 Morecambe Bay recommendations had been acted on, the scandals at Shrewsbury, East Kent, and Nottingham would likely never have happened.

So here is the question nobody is asking: who actually benefits from........

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