More than 450 families and dozens of members of staff have now come forward to be part of a review of inadequate maternity services at Nottingham hospitals. A review into ‘maternity incidents, complaints and concerns’ at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUH) was announced last year following a series of baby deaths and injuries at the Queen’s Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital.
The local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NHS England are jointly leading the ‘thematic review’, which started in October 2021. And Healthcare watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) reinspected maternity services at the hospital last month, having previously rated them ‘inadequate’.
It was revealed last month that the number of families who had come forward to be part of the CCG review had quadrupled in two weeks from 84 to 387. As of April 6, 461 families have come forward, the CCG told the Local Democracy Reporting Service – marking an increase of 74 families since March 22.
