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Nottingham maternity inquiry 'will not be delayed by police investigation' into baby deaths

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Donna Ockenden said she is confident the police investigation and her own independent review into Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust will be able to go ahead without impeding each other.

She said: “I had an in-depth conversation with Kate Meynell on Wednesday. She has assured me the work of her officers will not impede our progress. It will be like two trains going along parallel lines. We will of course co-operate with their investigation but I’m not anticipating their work will delay ours.”

Asked if concerns should have been acted on earlier, Ms Ockenden said: “Absolutely. On Wednesday, the families released to the public copies of letters where they were raising very significant concerns about the safety of maternity in Nottingham from April 2016. These included letters to the board, to the coroner, to the wider NHS system and they were not listened to.”

Sarah and Jack Hawkins, with their daughter Lottie. Their daughter Harriet died during childbirth in 2016 due to failings within Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Jack was a consultant in acute medicine while Sarah was a senior physiotherapist both working for the same Trust. Their case is one of hundreds being included in a review by Donna Ockenden

“We need to trust that NUH are conducting an appropriate inquiry. We do not currently believe that you are. Can you re-assure us please?”programme on Friday, Dr Hawkins said: “We realised as soon as we were told ‘I’m sorry your baby is dead’ that something had gone wrong. We told them in 2016 that their view on maternity safety was so poor that there could be someone causing deliberate harm and that is documented and written to all the right people and ignored.

 

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