Tobi Thomas
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first heard Jun 2026
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There were many examples of mothers being dismissed, being laughed at, being denied pain relief when expressing they were uncomfortable and in pain.
There were babies who were starved of oxygen.
There was a particularly shocking example where a stillborn baby was disposed of as clinical waste by accident by staff.
So it's not even just, you know, the care mothers and babies receive during labour, but also in the unfortunate circumstance, if they were stillborn, then even, you know, the post-death care was also inadequate there too.
Yeah, no, exactly that.
But it also plays in both ways that, you know, in instances where staff were aware of these complications and
And they were reported like, you know, the more senior people on the trust didn't take action.
One thing the report really highlighted was that for over a decade, a lot of these inadequacies and failures were known.
However, they were kind of swept under the carpet or turned a blind eye to because people higher up in the staff just didn't want to deal with the fallout of what this could have been.
And I think, you know,
It wasn't a surprise just how systemic these failures were.
This is something families have been talking about for years, even before Ockenden launched her formal review.
However, I think what this review really adds to is just the kind of really in-your-face examples of just how grotesque some of the care was that these mothers and babies did receive.
For example, there was one mother who spoke to Ockenden's review, who said that, you know, her partner was told to cover her mouth during labour.
There was another one who said that she felt she was sneered at when asked for pain relief.
Another mother, when she was asking for pain relief, was told by midwife, you know, that other people here, you're not the only important one in the ward.
And so, yeah, I think all of these glaring examples just really show how systemic these issues were within the Trust community.
Yeah, I'd say this review has definitely been a long time coming.
Families have been raising concerns about the care they've received in the trust for a long time, way before Donna Ockenden launched her review.
Ockenden had also investigated maternity failings in other NHS trusts, one in particular, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust.
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