Medical negligence lawyers say they stand ready to help address the wider issues raised in the latest devastating report on maternity care failings.
A report by senior midwife Donna Ockenden following the largest maternity review in NHS history found that more than 500 mothers and babies suffered potentially avoidable harm or died from ‘systemic failings’ at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The review examined cases between 2012 and 2025 and concluded that different care might have altered the outcome for 260 babies who died or were harmed.
Ockenden’s report referred to what she called the ‘startling’ statistic that clinical negligence is costing the NHS almost the same in legal compensation as it spends on the delivery of maternity care itself. But she made no criticism of lawyers or the costs that are incurred through claims, instead focusing on the care failings that underpin them.
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