Nottingham NHS bosses forced to face MPs over maternity scandal – West Street

Senior staff who refuse to be involved in the biggest maternity scandal in NHS history should be brought to parliament, former health secretary Wes Streeting said.

A review of Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust was found Hundreds of babies and mothers Damage that can be avoided.

As part of her review, Donna Ockenden said 66 former and current senior NUH colleagues were approached and only 35 were interviewed. For its part, Street Traffic said the “cowardice” of those who refused to participate was “insulting”.

Whistleblower Jack Hawkins – whose daughter Harriet has just been born – said he understood the sentiment, but questioned whether Parliament was the right forum for further inquiries.

Street, Man In May, he became the secretary of healthOckendon’s inquiry wants anyone who refuses to give evidence to appear before MPs at the Health and Social Care Select Committee.

“Their cowardice is an insult to the families of Nottingham,” Streeting said in a letter to the committee’s chairwoman, MP Leila Moran, which was seen by the BBC.

Having sat and listened to those parents share their tragedies, trauma and grief, I find it simply inconceivable that people working for the NHS would withhold an honest report of what went wrong and why.

“This is indicative of a culture of cover-up in the NHS, which must end. I am writing to use your authority as Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee to call on those who refused to give evidence to Donna Ockenden to explain their actions in front of Parliament.

“If the threat of holding Parliament in contempt is necessary to force those in power to account, then so be it.”

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