major report on Wednesday<\/a> into how failings led to the deaths of babies and serious harm to families.<\/p>\nNottinghamshire police said on Monday that two men had been arrested \u201cin connection with operating practices in the mortuary service\u201d at NUH.<\/p>\n
NUH operates mortuary services at Queen\u2019s Medical Centre and Nottingham city hospital under a licence provided by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA).<\/p>\n
The men, aged 55 and 59, were arrested on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in a public office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe enforcement was carried out by Operation Perth which is Nottinghamshire police\u2019s investigation into maternity services at both hospitals,\u201d the force said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cOperation Perth discovered breaches of regulations of the Human Tissue Act in relation to the management and operating practices of the mortuary services.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nottinghamshire\u2019s deputy chief constable, Rob Griffin, said: \u201cWe recognise this will be particularly distressing for families.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appreciate that this development comes only a few days before the publication of the independent maternity review, led by Donna Ockenden, which will be an important but difficult time for families.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have contacted the families who we have already identified as being directly impacted by the issues established within the NUH trust mortuaries.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the investigation progresses, we will contact other families who have been directly affected as soon as they are identified.\u201d<\/p>\n
About 2,500 families and more than 800 members of staff have contributed to the Ockenden review into NUH, with the organisation having already paid out millions of pounds in compensation and fines after being prosecuted for poor care.<\/p>\n
Nottinghamshire police launched a corporate manslaughter case last year as part of a wider criminal investigation into maternity failings at the trust.<\/p>\n
Regulators the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council are also investigating allegations against individual staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in the running of a mortuary service at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-652325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652325","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=652325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}