The chief executive of Nottingham's main hospitals has admitted there is 'still a lot to do' to improve maternity services after the trust was fined £800,000 over serious failings in the care and treatment of mum Sarah Andrews and baby daughter Wynter. Baby Wynter died just 23 minutes after she was born at the Queen's Medical Centre in September 2019.
Anthony May, who has been leading Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) since September, reiterated his apologies to Mrs Andrews and husband Gary after the court ruling on Friday, January 27.
Reading from a statement outside Nottingham Magistrates' Court, Mrs Andrews said they were not the only family harmed by the trust's failings. More than 1,500 families are expected to be covered by the independent Nottingham maternity review, which would make it the largest NHS maternity scandal in the UK, surpassing the 1,486 families examined during the separate maternity review which was also led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden in Shrewsbury.
