{"id":324689,"date":"2026-03-06T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/324689\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:47:08","slug":"shropshire-maternity-care-very-different-trust-chairman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/324689\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire maternity care very different, trust chairman says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The update comes after a review from NHS England, which, according to SaTH &#8220;recognised the trust has delivered significant, sustained, and demonstrable improvements&#8221;, allowing it to exit special measures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust was first rated inadequate after an inspection in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/api.cqc.org.uk\/public\/v1\/reports\/2dc44f10-3977-4fdf-bf2b-8362acc2404e?20210115060533\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report from the Care Quality Commission, external<\/a> found the safety of maternity services and urgent and emergency care to be inadequate and said medical care, critical care and end of life care needed improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspectors also found the leadership of the hospitals at the time to be inadequate and found improvements which needed to be made in the trust&#8217;s responsiveness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-shropshire-60925959\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final report into maternity services at the trust<\/a>, led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden, found catastrophic failures may have led to the deaths of more than 200 babies, nine mothers and left other infants with life-changing injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The update comes after a review from NHS England, which, according to SaTH &#8220;recognised the trust has delivered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-324689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}