Donna Ockenden delivers findings from three year review into maternity failings at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
In 2023, families affected by Nottingham maternity service failings, were delighted at the appointment of Senior Midwife Donna Ockenden to chair the ongoing Independent Review into Maternity Services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. They wanted Ms Ockenden to take charge to ensure the truth was uncovered, so other families could be safeguarded in the future.
Does your GP surgery advertise the potentially life-saving Jess’s Rule?
It’s nearly six months since posters advertising Jess’s Rule were rolled out to every GP surgery in England. Does your surgery have this relevant information on prominent display? If not, they should!
Families’ welcome the appointment of Donna Ockenden to lead an independent inquiry at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has made a dramatic U-turn and caved into pressure by appointing Donna Ockenden, a senior midwife, to lead the review into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals (LTH) NHS Trust.
The lives of 55 babies could have been saved with better care at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust
In September 2025, we wrote a blog detailing the fact that the government had ordered investigations to be led by Baroness Amos into 14 NHS Trusts over maternity care failures. One of these trusts was University Hospitals (UH) Sussex NHS Trust.
Independent Review finds 94 patients were harmed during care by Great Ormond Street Hospital orthopaedic surgeon Yaser Jabbar
In October 2024 we reported that Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) had launched an urgent review into the cases of nearly 800 patients after concerns were raised about one of its former surgeons. Yaser Jabbar was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who worked at the hospital’s lower limb reconstruction service from 2017 until 2022.
UK government to investigate 14 NHS trusts over maternity care failures
Families affected by maternity care failures who have been calling for a statutory national public inquiry into England’s maternity care have been left disappointed as Health Secretary Wes Streeting recently announced a rapid review of maternity cases at fourteen NHS trusts instead.