The NHS is going through one among its deepest crises – a string of maternity scandals, from Shrewsbury to Nottingham, Oxford to Leeds. Hundreds of infants have died or been left severely injured in hospitals meant to maintain them protected.
So why does this maintain taking place? Is it about funding, coaching, or a system that protects itself as an alternative of sufferers?
On this episode of The Fourcast, Krishnan Guru Murthy is joined by Jeremy Hunt MP, who was the Health Secretary between 2012 and 2018; Channel 4 News Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald who just lately reported on a maternity scandal at Oxford University Hospitals. The Trust there has apologised to households and stated it was dedicated to studying from errors; and Kayleigh Griffiths, whose daughter Pippa died in 2016 because of failings in care by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.
Her investigation alongside one other bereaved mom Rhiannon Davies into failings on the Trust led to Jeremy Hunt commissioning the Ockenden Review into bettering maternity companies throughout the nation.
Griffiths has additionally been essential of the well being watchdog – the Care Quality Commission saying its oversight of maternity companies was ‘not match for function.’
The CQC stated her complaints have been being taken significantly and it was partaking with households straight.
