Health secretary Sajid Javid has appointed a new chair to investigate concerns over baby deaths at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). Parents who had come forward had called upon midwife Donna Ockenden to do so, but this no longer looks to be the case.
It is understood Ms Ockenden, the senior midwife behind the report into the Shrewsbury and Telford maternity scandal, and who had agreed to urgently investigate concerns, was not asked to do so by the Health Secretary. This means she will not investigate, with former NHS Trust chairwoman Julie Dent CBE having instead been chosen.
Nottinghamshire Live was told by representatives of bereaved families that they had been informed Dent had instead been selected as of April 22. They are expected to make an official announcement soon.
