Maternity Services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Independent Review
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that all actions recommended in the Ockenden Report to improve maternal and neonatal services at Shropshire and Telford Hospital are successfully implemented.
Answered by Karin Smyth
NHS England continues to support the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust in implementing all local actions outlined in the final Ockenden report, to improve maternity and neonatal services. The trust remains on the Maternity Safety Support Programme, which provides hands-on intensive support to trusts from a dedicated advisor.
The trust continues to provide bi-monthly updates on their progress in implementing local action via their board of directors’ meetings. The trust published an action plan on the progress to address the local actions from the first and final Ockenden report, the most recent version of which is available at the following link:
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