Police Investigate Nottingham Baby Deaths

The Ockenden Review into the death or serious injury of babies and mothers at the Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust maternity unit revealed a shockingly high number of affected families (1486).

Most people following the story probably assumed that this was a real outlier – how can so many individual lives have been ruined over such a long time without any action being taken? But as Donna Ockenden's current review into Nottingham University NHS Trust's maternity units has revealed, Shrewsbury was no outlier: she and her team are looking at the files of approximately 1800 families who are thought to have been affected by poor treatment at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital. The announcement that the Trust is now also the subject of a police investigation will have compounded the agony for the families concerned.