Tobi Thomas
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first heard Jun 2026
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And yeah, I think that a lot of, you know, these pervasive stereotypes that, you know, women from all margins backgrounds can experience, especially in the maternity space where these authorities already do exist.
They were only kind of exacerbated the poor care that they already would have received at this trust.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, Ockenden described the workplace culture at the Trust as being toxic.
I don't think that's a word that would have been used lightly at all.
40% of the staff who were reviewed as part of the investigation found that they had either been bullied or seen bullying or experienced it in some way or the other.
It was really revealing some of the particular instances, for example, midwives being called idiots instead of their names.
There was an instance where urine was thrown over a staff member's car and HR didn't look into that properly.
So there were some really, really shocking examples of this kind of workplace bullying and this entrenched toxic culture that existed in the Trust.
I think another issue that ties into, I guess, hierarchies and concerns being dismissed is the fact that more junior and newer staff members felt that they couldn't raise concerns they may have had about inadequate care being provided or felt that anything they raised would be dismissed by higher-ups.
So that kind of perpetuated that cycle where issues would be happening, nothing would be done about it because of that toxic culture.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I think that would be a massive deal, despite the fact that there have been previous investigations into several maternity trusts that has never, you know, ended with any charges being made on the grounds of corporate manslaughter.
And so if corporate manslaughter was to actually become a charge, that would definitely be unprecedented in NHS history.
Yeah, exactly that.
I definitely think that's something that the government are wanting to take seriously.
They don't want this to just be like another review like we've had so many before.
I think one really big concrete step that the health secretary has made is to introduce Martha's Law across all maternity units.
And so what Martha's Law is, it was campaigned for by our colleague Maropi Mills and essentially means that every patient and family has the right to ask for a second clinical opinion.
And so I think that would, you know, that's the first step to making a big difference
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