{"id":522552,"date":"2025-10-23T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522552\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:05:12","slug":"donna-ockenden-will-not-run-leeds-maternity-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522552\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Ockenden will not run Leeds maternity review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ms Ockenden said she had discussed the issue with bereaved families in Nottingham and said she “felt confident” there was a way that she could take on more without impacting the work she has done so far.<\/p>\n

She said she would be willing to chair the inquiry in Leeds and a potential maternity review at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust, describing it as an “honour” to be considered.<\/p>\n

The BBC has been told families in Nottingham are supportive of Ms Ockenden leading other reviews.<\/p>\n

“We have to learn in this country that families shouldn’t have to fight as hard to get the answers that they deserve,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We saw that at the start of the Nottingham review and we saw it in Shrewsbury and Telford, it’s not good enough. <\/p>\n

“It’s always an honour and a privilege when families but trust in me and say they want me but it is not my decision, it’s for the secretary of state.”<\/p>\n

She said nine families had been in contact with Streeting and asked for her to take on a potential review of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust<\/a> – which has maternity units in Brighton, Chichester, Haywards Heath and Worthing. <\/p>\n

Asked about calls for her to take on this work, she said: “Again the sentiments are the same, it’s an honour to be trusted by families, it is not my decision but there are ways it can be made to work.<\/p>\n

“My promise, and I’ve discussed this in depth with Nottingham families and MPs, is it will not impact the quality or timeline for their review.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Ockenden said she had discussed the issue with bereaved families in Nottingham and said she “felt confident”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-522552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115424338942300086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}