{"id":495125,"date":"2026-06-16T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495125\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:00:07","slug":"nhs-report-told-of-nottingham-maternity-problems-before-major-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495125\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS report told of Nottingham maternity problems before major inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

A previously unpublished report has detailed serious concerns about workload, staffing and culture within Nottingham’s troubled maternity services.<\/p>\n

The review of the maternity unit at Nottingham City Hospital – seen by the BBC – was dated days before baby Harriet Hawkins was stillborn in 2016<\/a> – a landmark case that eventually led to the largest review of maternity failings<\/a> in the NHS.<\/p>\n

Donna Ockenden, who is leading the review of Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust – which runs City Hospital – said: “There were many concerns that were known about when Harriet Hawkins lost her life.”<\/p>\n

She will publish her findings on 24 June<\/a> after overseeing the review into baby deaths at NUH.<\/p>\n

The previously unpublished workplace report is historic, but raises questions about whether warning signs around staffing pressures and culture were acted on sufficiently.<\/p>\n

The external review – carried out by a workplace psychologist between December 2015 and March 2016, and dated 30 March 2016 – praised the “remarkable” commitment of staff, but also highlighted concerns around workload, inappropriate behaviour and wider issues with workplace culture.<\/p>\n

A total of 49 members of staff, including doctors and midwives, were interviewed and quoted in the report anonymously.<\/p>\n

The review was instigated after letters to staff at the maternity unit, as well as “unusual actions” on the unit during a visit by healthcare inspectors. <\/p>\n

This included an empty can of energy drink left in the middle of the floor of a clean delivery room – as well as butter “smeared around the top of a birthing pool”. <\/p>\n

The report also cited feedback from Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors, highlighting “some concerns with the culture” within the City Hospital maternity unit.<\/p>\n

The review was carried out to understand the culture, identify issues, and provide recommendations of potential solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A previously unpublished report has detailed serious concerns about workload, staffing and culture within Nottingham’s troubled maternity services.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-495125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495125","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=495125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}