Once again, a report has laid bare shocking treatment of mothers and babies. Ministers and NHS bosses must now do what it says
“Kate was the most beautiful baby you’ve ever seen … when Kate was born, quite literally, a light lifted inside me, it was so physical the love I felt … and that love turned into sheer determination.” Six hours after she was born at Ludlow community hospital in 2009, Kate Stanton-Davies was dead. If not for the “sheer determination” described this week by her mother, Rhiannon Davies, the Ockenden report into maternity care may never have come about.
Along with Kate’s father, Peter Stanton, and Colin and Kayleigh Griffiths – the parents of another newborn baby, Pippa, who died in 2016 – Ms Davies pushed and pushed for an independent review of the service offered to mothers giving birth by Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust. This week’s publication of what are described as “emerging findings” is only a staging post, based on 250 cases; the total number being examined has risen to 1,862 since the report was commissioned by the then health secretary, Jeremy Hunt.
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