Nottingham maternity review chair says change is happening

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A year into her review of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Donna Ockenden has insisted improvement work is happening “in the here and now”.    The healthcare leader said: “We won’t shirk with our findings, we will be open and honest … the learning that needs to happen is happening as we progress our work, it won’t be a very long, lengthy wait for the learning and the change to happen in Nottingham’s maternity services.” Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 improvement work at Nottingham's maternity services is happening in the here and now.

00:04 We have a strict structure in place where I meet with the executive team every eight

00:09 weeks, I feed back with family permission what I have heard and then I look again at

00:15 what they've done in response to those concerns. We're at an early stage of our work. What

00:21 I will say to local families and the Trust know this too, we won't shirk with our findings.

00:29 We will be open and honest and transparent with our findings. If there is a need for

00:35 trust wide accountability or individual accountability, we will absolutely say that. We don't make

00:40 recommendations, we make immediate and essential actions so we're very clear that what we say

00:45 must happen, must happen. I want to say to families a big thank you, a huge thank you

00:52 from my review team and me for ensuring that this review took place. I think that's really

00:57 important and to reassure local residents that the learning that needs to happen is

01:02 happening as we progress our work. It won't be a very long lengthy wait for the learning

01:08 and the change to happen in Nottingham's maternity services.

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