Nottingham maternity inquiry to investigate 1,700 cases in largest-ever baby deaths probe
The IndependentSign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} The Nottingham maternity inquiry is set to examine 1,700 cases in what could be the UK’s largest-ever maternity scandal. The review into maternity services provided by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust came after The Independent uncovered poor care over more than a decade, revealing failures in the cases of 61 babies. Families speaking at the annual meeting for NUH on Monday highlighted failings including: midwives not escalating care when Caesareans were needed the misdiagnosis of a healthy baby in the womb with a fatal condition a mother permanently harmed during a C-section and a mother who lost her son because staff failed to carry out a basic post-natal test Ms Ockenden told the meeting the trust had a “very long journey ahead, what has happened cannot be fixed overnight”. My promise is that this independent review will be conducted with kindness, with compassion, with expertise, and professionalism, and it will do its work in a timely way.” In May, Ms Ockenden criticised NUH over its failure to engage with ethnic minority families whose babies had died, giving way to fears the inquiry would not be able to represent these populations adequately.