Donna Ockenden is appointed to lead the maternity services inquiry at Leeds hospitals. Source link

Another bereaved Leeds parent, Lauren Caulfield, added: "Given the size and scale of failings at Leeds, for this inquiry to be successful it needs someone who understands systematic failures, ...

Maternity services at Lancaster Royal Infirmary are rated "good", but improvements must be made in A&E. Source link

Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondentGetty ImagesThe review looks at the worst-performing maternity and neonatal servicesHungry mothers, dirty wards and poor care are blighting England's maternity services while staff receive death ...

Michael BuchananSocial Affairs CorrespondentBBCThe review will look into cases at the Royal Sussex County HospitalFamilies calling for an inquiry into maternity care in East Sussex say they feel "ignored, ...

Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondentGetty ImagesThe former diplomat Baroness Valerie Amos has been chosen to lead a rapid review into maternity care in England.Announcing her appointment, Health Secretary Wes Streeting ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said "we must act now" as he announced a national investigation into maternity care in England.The "rapid" inquiry will urgently look at the worst-performing ...

Tom BurgessBBC News, North East and CumbriaNiki CotsonMore than 700 people have signed Niki's petition to have the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust put into special measuresA mum ...

BBCA row over comments by leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch suggesting maternity pay had "gone too far" has dominated the first day of the Conservative Party conference.The shadow housing secretary ...

Getty ImagesMany of the maternity failings at scandal-hit hospitals are becoming more widespread, England’s NHS regulator says.Investigations into units in Shrewsbury and Telford and East Kent found poor care ...

1 day agoBy Matt Precey, BBC News, BedfordshireGettyMaternity services at the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been downgraded to 'inadequate'Maternity staff at an NHS trust faced racism from their own colleagues, ...

"As a trust providing health and social care services in our community, it is important that we best serve the changing demographic of the area's population, which is why ...