Inquiry into Nottingham Hospitals Maternity Care

The top midwife reviewing care at hospitals in Nottingham has called for an urgent meeting with the new health secretary. Donna Ockenden is currently reviewing care at the Queens Medical Centre and City Hospital. It follows a decade where 4 times a week there'd be reports of Mums and babies dying or suffering serious harm.

She says recommendations made two years ago in a report into another health trust still haven't been implemented, accusing the former government of being too slow to fix failings in maternity care. "Sajid Javid said that everything we'd written in that reports would be introduced swiftly. We then had multiple changes of Secretary of State - the government were quite frankly asleep at the wheel, and we're still in a position where we need accelerated progress."

In response Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: "When it comes to the crisis in our maternity services across the country it is one of the biggest issues that keeps me awake at night. The quality of care being delivered today and the risk of disaster greeting women in labour tomorrow."