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Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Last night’s ‘Maternity Scandal’ #panorama on Shrewsbury was a tough watch. Hard to comprehend that an inquiry I originally commissioned to look into 23 cases has now uncovered 2000+ families whose lives were devastated by poor maternity care at one NHS trust.
Struck again - as I was in 2017 when I met Richard & Rhiannon Davies - by the raw grit & courage of families who relive the avoidable death of their child daily to prevent other families facing similar tragedy. Compelling account of their bravery here:
bbc.co.uk/news/health-60…
There will be much more to say when the final Ockenden report comes out shortly. As @DHSCgovuk primary focus moves on from covid, ministers must make a comprehensive response to this report their top priority.
Dismissing the trust as one bad apple won’t cut it; there are clearly systemic, cultural issues in maternity care which we must urgently address.

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Today’s report is most important my Select Committee has done. Taken over a year with lengthy evidence sessions (7 hours in the case of Dominic Cummings) but shows, I hope, parliament at its best as we deliver far reaching conclusions about our pandemic response…
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