claims against maternity

The Quality Care Commission (CQC) have revisited Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) over recent months to reconsider the safety and quality of the maternity services it provides. They had previously rated the services as “inadequate” but as of 13 September 2023, have improved this rating to “requires improvement”. Although this shows a definite step […]

Concerningly, there has now been suggestion there are a number of families in Nottingham who do not realise that they have been harmed and affected by the poor treatment provided to them at either the Queens Medical Centre (QMC) or City Hospital in Nottingham. Worryingly, families from minority communities have been the worst affected. With […]

It is widely known that a review of the maternity Services in Nottingham is being carried out by Donna Ockenden. The latest figures show that 1266 families have already contacted by the review team and 674 of those families have given consent to form part of the review itself. With this already in the pipeline, […]

Donna Ockenden, Chair of the Independent Review into the maternity services at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, has appealed for more families to come forward to be part of the review. Five months into the review process, over 900 families have been in contact with the review team as well as over 400 former […]

News has broken that Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust will face criminal prosecution following the sad death of baby Wynter Andrews, just 23 minutes after she was born in September 2019. The Nottingham County Coroner found that Wynter’s death was a “clear and obvious case of neglect” and that “gross failings” had occurred. It was […]