Many of the systemic failures identified in the Ockenden report gave me a dreadful sense of deja vu
The Ockenden report looking at failures in maternity care at Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals (SaTH) published this week makes for truly harrowing reading. The report looks at the first 250 cases of potentially avoidable harm to mothers and babies reviewed as part of a wider investigation of maternity services at the trust going back two decades and beyond.
As the father of a baby boy who died avoidably due to serious failures in his care at the Morecambe Bay trust in 2008, the report paints a grim picture of systemic issues that are sadly only too familiar.
