Thank you @oxfordclarion.bsky.social for this long read about the state of England’s maternity services, the NMNI interim report & the Families Failed by OUH Maternity Services campaign’s achievement in securing OUH’s inclusion in the NMNI.
#MaternityScandal #MaternitySafety

Investigation by @newstatesman1913.bsky.social & @channel4news.bsky.social & @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social response here:

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#MaternityScandal #OxfordUniversityHospitals

Families Failed by OUH Maternity Services | Maternity care failings in Oxfordshire Families Failed by OUH Maternity Services is a campaign calling for an independent inquiry into maternity care at Oxford University Hospitals.

As a campaign we wrote to Oxon HOSC @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social at the weekend requesting a meeting to provide the extensive evidence we have documented. We hope Oxon HOSC will finally scrutinise #OxfordUniversityHospitals & #BOBICB adequately.

#MaternityScandal

www.familiesfailedbyOUH.co.uk

"GRIEVING PARENTS 'GASLIT BY MINISTER'"
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Some of the bereaved families in the #Leeds #MaternityScandal have questioned whether #WesStreeting is "competent" in organising the #PublicInquiry.

#YorkshirePost
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#IBPAPERS

"FAMILIES' FURY OVER MATERNITY INQUIRY"
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Senior midwife @dockendenltd.bsky.social has made it clear many times to #WesStreeting that she's ready to chair the Inquiry into the #MaternityScandal in #Leeds.

#YorkshirePost
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#IBPAPERS

Thank you to ITV Meridian for once again giving a voice to families harmed by maternity services in Oxfordshire. ❤️

Listen to our reaction to Baroness Amos’ reflections here:

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#FamiliesFailedbyOUH #MaternitySafety #AmosReview #MaternityScandal

I was invited to speak on @thejeremyvine.bsky.social BBC Radio 2 show earlier. He asked what one change I would make to maternity services.

Accountability.

Listen here from 5mins in- bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

#FamiliesFailedbyOUH #AmosReview
#MaternitySafety #MaternityScandal

Victims of maternity failings 'disappointed' with findings of damning report The National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation is being led by Baroness Amos, whose interim report released today already makes for difficult reading. Those who have suffered are sceptical of real ...

Failings reduced to a bullet point list in the NMNI Reflections. Until toxic cultures & leadership failings are addressed, & people & systems are held accountable, nothing will change. #OxfordUniversityHospitals #MaternityScandal

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Coroner advice to avoid future maternity deaths ‘not acted on’ by trusts Advice issued by coroners to prevent pregnant women and new mothers dying is not being acted upon by many trusts, researchers have warned.

Only 38% of trusts and other organisations sent a coroner’s prevention of future deaths report published responses, a study has found #maternityservices #maternityscandal www.doctors.net.uk/news/coroner-advice-to-avoid-future-maternity-deaths-not-acted-on-by-trusts

Problems caused by early retirement of breast cancer specialists The early retirement of more than a quarter of breast cancer specialists means that workforce shortages are affecting patient safety.

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Following a decade of devastating maternity scandals, TMLEP’s lead healthcare investigator Nina Vegad suggests that the newly launched national investigation must turn insight into action.

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#healthcare #publichealth #maternityscandal

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#SHAME @ouhospitals.bsky.social

Excellent investigation/reporting by @vsmacdonald.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social & @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

Thank you.

#MaternityScandal

#SHAME @ouhospitals.bsky.social

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I’ve known Gothami for years now, having originally spoken to her in 2021 when I spoke to over 50 women denied caesarean births by @ouhospitals.bsky.social. Her experience will always stick with me. Their unethical ban on caesareans is a huge scandal. #OxfordUniversityHospitals #MaternityScandal

But we have to ask what was the point of this question- the answer was simply that Lammy is pals with Amos 🤷‍♀️. Are #Oxfordshire families reassured that babies will stop dying preventable deaths? No. Please take genuine action urgently. #OxfordUniversityHospitals #MaternityScandal

Comment: Diluting the maternity investigation Olivia Boschat, associate solicitor at Bolt Burdon Kemp, writes that excluding Shrewsbury & Telford and Leeds from the maternity care inquiry risks missing the big picture.

Olivia Boschat, associate solicitor at @boltburdonkemp.bsky.social, writes that excluding Shrewsbury & Telford and Leeds from the maternity care inquiry risks missing the big picture.

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#healthcare #publichealth #maternityscandal #government #inquiry

The NHS Can’t Afford Austerity – And Neither Can We A £27 billion NHS maternity bill reveals the staggering cost of austerity. Across public services, we’re paying far more than was ever saved.

Thousands of families devastated. £27 billion lost. And it didn’t have to happen. Austerity has left public services hollowed out. #AusterityCosts #NHS #MaternityScandal
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The NHS Can’t Afford Austerity – And Neither Can We A £27 billion NHS maternity bill reveals the staggering cost of austerity. Across public services, we’re paying far more than was ever saved.

It’s not just a maternity scandal — it’s austerity in action. A £27bn NHS bill exposes how cuts created catastrophe. #NHS #Austerity #VoxPolitical #MaternityScandal
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The NHS Can’t Afford Austerity – And Neither Can We A £27 billion NHS maternity bill reveals the staggering cost of austerity. Across public services, we’re paying far more than was ever saved.

A £27bn NHS maternity scandal isn’t the real story. Austerity is. We’re all paying the price for a decade of cuts. #NHS #Austerity #MaternityScandal #VoxPolitical
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Just over a year since the Families Failed by #OxfordUniversityHospitals Maternity Services campaign began. We now have over 500 harmed families across #Oxfordshire with more joining daily. Instead of looking away- listen & act! #LibDems #MaternityScandal familiesfailedbyOUH.co.uk

This feels poignant after what the Families Failed by #OxfordUniversityHospitals Maternity Services campaign has exp’d over the past year. The Chair of OUH, Prof Jonathan Montgomery (UCL), was the Morecambe Bay Inquiry’s Ethics expert- make of that what you will. #MaternityScandal #BirthTrauma

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Why do we have families who’ve been failed by @ouhospitals.bsky.social maternity services reporting that they complained to PALS & didn’t ever hear anything back? Oxfordshire MNVP censoring social media comments so that all appears rosy... #MaternitySafety #BirthTrauma #MaternityScandal

We now have 260+ harmed families in the Families Failed by OUH Maternity Services campaign group. Still #Oxfordshire Family Information Service won’t share the campaign & hasn’t updated its appalling birth information. @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social
#MaternityScandal

Kim Thomas & I founded a campaign last year- Families Failed by OUH Maternity Services- to call for an indep inquiry into the standard of maternity care in #Oxfordshire. The extent of the harm is monumental 😢. #MaternityScandal #MakeOxfordshireMaternitySafe
#BirthrightsareHumanRights