A report into maternity care at a unit run by Britain’s socialised healthcare service is to find that over 300 babies died unnecessarily thanks to quotas and an obsession with “natural births”.
A National Health Service hospital group has admitted in court the failure to provide safe maternity care to Sarah Richford and her baby son Harry, who died seven days after delivery, in the first prosecution of its kind.
West Mercia Police has confirmed that they are opening an investigation to see if there could be a criminal case to be brought related to the deaths of at least 42 babies and three mothers at scandal-hit NHS hospitals in England.
A leaked interim report has blamed a “toxic” culture at English hospitals that resulted in the deaths of 42 babies and three mothers and dozens of severe injuries in what is believed to be the worst maternity scandal in the history of the National Health Service.
A review into mother and baby deaths and serious injuries at an NHS hospital trust — labelled potentially the UK’s deadliest failure at a maternity unit — has been widened to cover 215 families.
As many as 60 mothers and babies may have died or suffered serious injury as a result of failings at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust in what may be the UK’s deadliest failure in a maternity unit.