Senior midwife Donna Ockenden’s review found more than 500 women and babies died or suffered serious harm due to poor care
Presenting some of her findings, Ockenden said her team found “significant or major concerns in care where different or better care may have made a difference to the outcome” in the following cases:
21% of cases where mothers died,
26% of cases where mothers experienced a major obstetric haemorrhage,
36% of cases where a mother had an unplanned admission to intensive care,
20% of cases involving a mother’s care when a baby was stillborn,
50% of a mother’s care when a baby suffered hypoxic brain injury.
