Nottingham maternity deaths review team to meet families

Donna Ockenden, who chaired a review into the deaths of over 200 babies at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, is meeting families, many of whom had babies who died or were left with serious injuries due to failings at Nottingham’s maternity units.

 

Figures show that between 2005/6 and 2020/21, there were a total of 207 claims against the hospital’s maternity services, including 36 for cerebral palsy, 26 for stillbirths and 24 for brain damage.

 

Ms Ockenden said she expected the review to take around 18 months and would officially start in September.

 

She said “Following on from the meetings with families and listening to their views on how the review should progress, what we will be using the summer months for is putting the building blocks in place.

 

“Families can feel assured they will be involved in the crafting of these terms of reference.

 

“We will need access to hundreds of thousands of documents in order for us to form an opinion on what happens with maternity services at NUH and, importantly, to help NUH maternity services get better.”

 

Ms Ockenden was approached by families in Nottingham after chairing a review into the deaths of over 200 babies at Shrewsbury in what was considered to be the UK’s biggest maternity scandal.

 

Chadwick Lawrence’s team of medical negligence lawyers have years of experience in high value and complex medical negligence compensation claims and have an excellent record.  The team is led by Tony May, a specialist cerebral palsy and birth injury solicitor, who has over 20 years experience in handling cases in which babies have been brain damaged or sustained other injuries as a result of medical negligence.  He and his team continue to represent many cerebral palsy children and young adults in medical negligence claims.  Tony also acts as a Court of Protection Deputy for many of the cerebral palsy and brain damaged clients that he has represented, so we can continue to support you after your case is settled.  Tony can be contacted by email on tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk.  Alternatively, please call and speak to any of Chadwick Lawrence’s specialist medical negligence Legal Aid and no win, no fee solicitors for free legal advice on Freephone 0800 304 7382