What would you do if you were pregnant and lived in Shropshire?

So awful for all the families involved, knowing your baby could have been saved must be very difficult to live with.
The Report covered the period up to 2019, so it is to be hoped and expected that a lots of changes have already taken place, and that there will be a very close implementation and monitoring system in place now to bring the service up to scratch. That will include dealing with any individuals, and the consultants and senior midwives who set the culture of the department will no doubt have been through the mill, and been dismissed/disciplined. The hardest part is rebuilding the reputation, and attracting high calibre staff to work in the unit now. If the whole department was removed as you suggest Whitewavemark I can’t see that it would ever be able to reopen because the staff just aren’t out there to recruit.

I cannot comprehend the pain and anguish these poor families had to endure. I bet the Chief Executive of that hospital Trust got a big fat bonus though for driving down Caesarean section births which as was NHS goal at the time and their Trust achieved 13% better than targets. Shameful.

It’s no good just throwing money at ‘our’ NHS. It’s tentacles are like Japanese knotweed. The whole edifice needs pulling to pieces and starting over making it fit for purpose.

No government would do that as it would be the kiss of death politically. So they all sing it’s praises and throw more money at it.

It needs cross-party consultation. An on-going project, bringing in the intellectual heft of successful big private firms to show NHS high managers what could be achieved if they’d only do things differently. A huge amount of money is ring fenced every year to settle compensation claims.

It’s time it was looked at properly with a brand new mission statement. This cobbled together concept where individual Trusts compete for ‘clients’ is bonkers. They buy in services from other Trusts when their own services are overwhelmed. We can’t keep tinkering around the edges. But we probably will.