{"id":384471,"date":"2026-01-22T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:21:08","slug":"health-secretary-wes-streeting-quizzed-on-leeds-maternity-inquiry-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384471\/","title":{"rendered":"Health secretary Wes Streeting quizzed on Leeds maternity inquiry start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The units were subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdx5rp4y42yo\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">downgraded to inadequate<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last January, the trust said that the vast majority of births at Leeds were safe and that the city cares for a higher volume of babies with complex conditions as it is one of a &#8220;handful of specialist centres&#8221; in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In October, bereaved families said they wanted Donna Ockenden &#8211; the senior midwife who has led review into maternity failings in Shropshire and Nottingham &#8211; to chair the Leeds inquiry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The nearby Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg6xj1vz70o\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of 14 health bodies being investigated as part of a wider probe into maternity failings<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The health secretary said that &#8220;beyond past failings&#8221; he was &#8220;looking actively&#8221; at the current state of maternity units in Leeds and Bradford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added he was &#8220;making sure we are driving improvements, not just in the future, but immediately as well&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The units were subsequently downgraded to inadequate. Last January, the trust said that the vast majority of births&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-384471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}