At least 45 baby deaths could have been avoided at two Kent hospitals, a report into maternity services at an NHS trust has found.
"The panel has not been able to detect any discernible improvement in outcomes or suboptimal care, as evidenced by the cases assessed over the period from 2009 to 2020," the report said.
"We have no doubt that these numbers are minimum estimates of the frequency of harm over the period."The report was chaired by Dr Bill Kirkup, who also led the investigation in 2015 into deaths of mothers and babies at the Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.in November 2017, have been campaigning for answers after saying their concerns were repeatedly brushed aside by hospital managers. An inquest ruled his death was"wholly avoidable" and the trust was fined £733,000.
Last October, the Care Quality Commission , which inspects hospitals, again expressed concerns over the trust, which it has repeatedly ranked as"requires improvement". It said during unannounced inspections in July 2021 that there were not enough midwifery staff members and maternity support workers to keep women and babies safe.
Inspectors said those working felt exhausted, stressed and anxious, while some community midwives had taken on additional work in the acute units, which meant they were sometimes working 20-hour days.
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