Tobi Thomas

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Today in Focus · Hundreds of mothers and babies died or were harmed at ‘toxic’ hospital trust – The Latest · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

She led an investigation which spanned a 20-year period and found that several hundred babies had died or were seriously injured in instances that could have been avoided.

And so I think she really had the precedent for, you know, leading these really in-depth, thorough reviews into maternity services.

I think after that investigation came out, there were some families who had been, you know, received care at these hospitals in Nottingham, who thought, you know, this, the care we've received wasn't right, we'd like something more thorough to kind of,

you know, be looked into.

I think a specific case is the one of Jack and Sarah Hawkins, whose daughter Harriet was born stillborn.

At the time, the trust had said that they investigated it and they found that there were no failings in their care.

However, the couple really didn't accept that and they pushed and eventually it was found that

There were, I think, 13 instances that, you know, had gone wrong that could have been avoided.

And also they also received the highest medical negligence settlement in NHS history for stillbirth.

I think it was over two million pounds.

And so all of these instances coupled together, more and more families coming forward were

yeah, Donna Ockenden getting involved because the families, you know, really trust her and her team to lead a really thorough investigation.

And so although it's only been published now, it's been in the pipeline for, you know, a lot of years now, even before it was formally launched, concerns were being raised time and time again.

Yeah, no, definitely.

There was a lot of content within the review, even though it's 400 pages long, it was very extensive.

That really highlighted how, you know, women from more marginalized backgrounds, from like black and Asian minority ethnic backgrounds, teenage mothers, mothers from more deprived backgrounds, socioeconomically.

also faced you know more disadvantages.

The report did highlight a few instances where language barriers meant that women couldn't be confident asking for care and there were some shocking instances of you know one woman from the ethnic minority background being told by a doctor quite dismissively oh why are you having more babies like why are you back here again

There was like a teenage mother who complained about, you know, severely bleeding.

And, you know, when speaking to maternity staff felt dismissed and eventually her baby did die in the womb.

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