The government has named the 14 NHS hospital trusts whose maternity services will be investigated as part of a rapid national probe into systemic “failures.”
The rapid national investigation into maternity and neonatal care across England was announced in June after a series of scandals in recent years at trusts, including East Kent, Nottingham, Shrewsbury, and Telford.1
It will examine a range of services across the entire maternity system, how women’s voices are ignored, how safety concerns are overlooked, and poor leadership that leads to “toxic” cultures. It is being led by Valerie Amos, a previous UK government minister and currently master of University College Oxford.
The 14 trusts (box 1 …
