Healthcare inspectors have again visited the maternity units at Nottingham’s main hospitals to assess if they are moving forward from an ‘inadequate’ rating. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says Nottingham University Hospitals Trust “remains subject to close monitoring” after maternity was graded as inadequate following a 2020 inspection.
This week the commission said it returned to the service at the start of March to check its progress, adding a report on the latest visit will be published in “due course”. The watchdog also said it is also reviewing “a number of incidents” in maternity services which have occurred across the trust, which runs the Queen’s Medical Centre and City Hospital, dating back to 2018.
There have been dozens of baby deaths and injuries across the service, and millions of pounds paid out to families in compensation. The local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is also currently carrying out its own separate review into maternity services at the trust, but some grieving parents fear this is not enough and have called for a public inquiry.
