The trust running Nottingham's major hospitals says it will improve how it deals with families involved in the maternity services review after complaints of "superficial" apologies. It has been confirmed that the team reviewing Nottingham's maternity units will have access to the records of 1,700 families because of a change to how the inquiry is managed.
People will now have to officially 'opt out' of the review, rather than the system up to now which has seen families coming forward to be involved. The news was confirmed at the annual public meeting of the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) on Monday (July 10).
With the review ongoing, the meeting also heard that NUH will now be working with families to offer them a "meaningful" apology for maternity failings. The review was launched after more than a hundred families contacted the Government asking for it.
