More than 500 mothers and babies suffered potentially avoidable harm or died due to poor care at a UK hospital, according to a damning report published Wednesday in the country’s latest maternity scandal.
At least 156 cases involved the death of babies, and six mothers also died at two units run by Nottingham University Hospitals Trust in central England.
The independent probe was the largest maternity inquiry in the history of the state-run National Health Service (NHS), involving over 2,500 families in cases spanning 13 years from 2012 to 2025.
It comes after a string of other investigations in recent years highlighted a crisis in England’s care of mothers and babies.
Sarah and Jack Hawkins’ daughter Harriet should have been born healthy but was stillborn in 2016. The couple were both senior clinicians at the trust at the time.
“I just can’t compute … how they did this to us
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