Senior midwife Donna Ockenden investigated stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths, and babies or mothers who suffered brain damage and other injuries Full story: hundreds died or were harmed due to ‘toxic’ maternity care ‘Truly horrific’: five stories from the NHS maternity scandal Nottingham maternity care scandal: what are the key findings? Presenting some of her findings, Ockenden said her team found “significant or major concerns in care where different or better care may have made a difference to the outcome” in the following cases: 21% of cases where mothers died, 26% of cases where mothers experienced a major obstetric haemorrhage, 36% of cases where a mother had an unplanned admission to intensive care, 20% of cases involving a mother’s care when a baby was stillborn, 50% of a mother’s care when a baby suffered hypoxic brain injury. Continue reading...