A mother whose efforts helped to uncover the extent of the county’s maternity scandal is now backing calls for significant funding required to improve services.
Improving the safety of maternity units and implementing recommendations made as part of an inquiry into baby deaths will reportedly cost £400 million per year.
The Ockenden Review into baby deaths at a scandal-hit NHS trust said maternity staff had caused distress to patients by using “inappropriate language” and blaming grieving mothers for their loss.
The inquiry into deaths and allegations of poor care at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), set up in 2017, identified seven “immediate and essential actions” needed to improve maternity services in England.
Midwife Donna Ockenden led the independent inquiry into baby deaths at scandal-hit Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (House of Commons/PA)
Press Release – Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy Nearly a year since a Parliamentary petition on vaping flavours closed, and exactly six months since the Governments vaping legislation was passed, the petition organiser has submitted a supporting supplementary submission at the Health Select Committees …
Nearly a year since a Parliamentary petition on vaping flavours closed, and exactly six months since the Government’s vaping legislation was passed, the petition organiser has submitted a supporting supplementary submission at the Health Select Committee’s request.
Despite the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 now in play, the Government could still opt to follow the evidence, not the emotion, when it comes to final decisions around the availability of vape flavours, says Nancy Loucas, co-director of Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy (AVCA).
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Friday, 5th February 2021, 12:07 pm
The former Health Secretary has warned against reopening the economy too soon (Photo: Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suggested that some form of social restrictions should remain in place until coronavirus cases are down to 1,000 per day.
In a recent interview with The Guardian, the current chair of the Health Select Committee and former Health Secretary said that the Government should take a South Korean approach to coronavirus, using intensive contact tracing while maintaining curbs on everyday life until cases are down to around 1,000 per day.
Currently, daily coronavirus infections are at around 20,000 in the UK, meaning this approach would likely involve restrictions in place throughout summer.
Friday, 5 February 2021, 9:20 am
Nearly a year since a Parliamentary petition on vaping
flavours closed, and exactly six months since the
Government’s vaping legislation was passed, the petition
organiser has submitted a supporting supplementary
submission at the Health Select Committee’s
request.
Despite the Smokefree Environments and
Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 now in play,
the Government could still opt to follow the evidence, not
the emotion, when it comes to final decisions around the
availability of vape flavours, says Nancy Loucas,
co-director of Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy
(AVCA).
AVCA’s petition to Parliament requested:
‘That the House of Representatives debate the