 has acknowledged improvements in Nottingham's maternity services but said more were still needed Maternity units where dozens of babies have died or been injured are no longer rated inadequate by a care watchdog. Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) Trust is subject to the largest review of its kind in the UK after a series of failings. Police are also investigating the trust's maternity services , rated inadequate by the (CQC) since 2020. However, that rating has now been upgraded to "requires improvement". The CQC carried out an unannounced two-day inspection of the maternity units in April and has now released its findings , days after it confirmed it was investigating the deaths of three babies in the trust's care in 2021. The regulator has judged both hospital maternity units, and the trust's overall maternity service, as requiring improvement but said it identified sufficient recent improvement to lift their long-standing inadequate rating. Its latest findings come a year into a major review of the trust's maternity failings by senior midwife Donna Ockenden, who is looking at the cases of some 1,800 affected families. Her findings so far have triggered an inquiry by Nottinghamshire Police that will run alongside her own. Image caption, The CQC raised concerns over staff levels at City Hospital (pictured) and the Queen's Medical Centre CQC Midlands deputy director of operations Greg Rielly said: "At both maternity services, we saw an improvement in the level of care being provided to people and their babies since we last rated both services as inadequate. "It is positive to see that the trust is now on an improvement journey to bring about better and safer care." However, the CQC's latest report said the trust's maternity service "did not have enough substantive staff to care for women and keep them safe" and not all staff had training in key skills or assessed risks to women in a timely way. Inspectors raised sa){kind=link}
Maternity units where dozens of babies have died or been injured are no longer rated inadequate by a care watchdog.
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust is subject to the largest review of its kind in the UK after a series of failings.
Police are also investigating the trust’s maternity services, rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) since 2020.
However, that rating has now been upgraded to “requires improvement”.
The CQC carried out an unannounced two-day inspection of the maternity units in April and has now released its findings, days after it confirmed it was investigating the deaths of three babies in the trust’s care in 2021.