Ockenden report live: largest maternity review in NHS history to be published

Senior midwife Donna Ockenden investigated stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths, and babies or mothers who suffered brain damage and other injuries
Speaking ahead of the publication of the report, Labour MP Michelle Welsh said it was “pure luck” that her own baby had survived birth.
“When it comes to luck, as to whether your baby survives or not, then that is a true indication of a system that is truly, truly failing,” the MP for Sherwood Forest and the government’s first maternity adviser told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
I feel that there is a momentum. I do feel that there is a will.
I mean, I absolutely make sure that I am listened to. I haven’t got in within those doors to sit there quiet and just nod my head. I’m absolutely out there, at the forefront, being very, very loud and clear about the fact that we do need the funding.
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