{"id":5906,"date":"2022-03-09T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T09:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/03\/09\/shropshire-baby-deaths-ockenden-report-delayed-for-second-time\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T09:38:03","slug":"shropshire-baby-deaths-ockenden-report-delayed-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/03\/09\/shropshire-baby-deaths-ockenden-report-delayed-for-second-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire baby deaths: Ockenden report delayed for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A report on the failure of maternity care at an NHS trust has again been delayed.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lead midwife Donna Ockenden has investigated hundreds of cases where mothers and babies may have been harmed at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTh).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Her report was due for publication on March 22 after being postponed from December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a letter to the families, Ms Ockenden said the date “can no longer take place”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She added that there were “parliamentary processes” that needed to take place before the final report could be released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The delay was a “massive kick in the pit of the stomach”, according to a tweet by Rhiannon Davies<\/a>whose daughter Kate died in March 2009, hours after she was born.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Davies and her partner Richard Stanton have campaigned for the review, along with Kayleigh and Colin Griffiths, whose daughter Pippa died in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A written statement by Patient Safety Secretary Maria Caulfield to Parliament on Tuesday said the NHS had been working to get compensation coverage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said this would cover any potential legal action after the report’s release and had been agreed in principle by the Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Ockenden’s team have examined 1,862 cases and it is believed to be the largest ever review of maternity care in the NHS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Their interim report, released in December 2020, found that some mothers were blamed for the deaths of their babies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In her letter about the delay, Ms Ockenden said she and her team were “also very disappointed with the delay” and were working to agree on a new release date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SaTh previously said it was fully cooperating with the review team, adding that most of the actions raised in an interim report had already been completed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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