Two Leeds hospitals’ maternity services rated inadequate over safety risks | NHS

Care for women and children in two years Leeds The NHS organizer said that hospitals have a great danger to their safety.
The CEC Quality Committee (CQC) has called for urgent improvements to maternity services at Leeds General Hospital and St. James Hospital, where they reduced them to “insufficient”.
This year’s BBC investigation was found that at least 56 children and mothers may be prevented in the two hospitals between January 2019 and July 2024.
Hospitals run by Leeds Education Hospitals NHS Confidence is the most recent of the maternity scandal that revealed disastrous failures in Nottingham, Sharousbury, Teleford, Murekambi Bay, East Kent and others.
The reduction of maternity and newborn services in Leeds follows unanimous inspections by CQC in December and January.
Anne Ford, Operations Director of CQC, said she had received fears of employees, patients and families about safety levels and employees in the hospital.
She said: “During the inspection, fears were proven, and this is a great danger to the safety of women, the people who use these services, and their children as votes for employees affected by the timing of the care and support they received.”
The inspectors found dirty areas of motherhood wings in both hospitals, storing insecure medications, and the “culture of blame” that left the employees unwilling to raise concerns, and the described short units.
On newborn wings, which are interested in the most vulnerable newborn children, CQC found that they suffer from employee deficiency, and children who needed special care were transferred from eligible from one hospital to another.
The request for freedom of information by the BBC in January revealed that the NHS box has identified at least 56 deaths that may be possible to be prevented from January 2019 to July 2024, and it consists of 27 of the salvation and 29 of the deaths of newborns, which are deaths within 28 days after birth.
In each case, the confidence review group has identified the care issues that it considered had made a difference in the result of children.
Sir Julian Hartley, CKC president, CEO of LEHS TRST educational hospitals for 10 years until January 2023, means that he was responsible when many of the preventive deaths occurred.
The parents of a newborn girl who died after multiple failures at the Leeds Public Club in January 2020 questioned CQC’s ability to conduct an independent inspection, given the previous role of Hartley. The organizer said it has “strong policies to manage any conflict of interest.”
“These reports have highlighted important areas where we need to improve our birth and newborn services, and my first is to make sure to take measures to deliver these improvements,” said Professor Phil Wood, CEO of LEHS TRST educational hospitals.
He said that confidence was working to improve the procedures of those whose violations of the employees and recruited 55 midwives, leaving them 11 of the national goal.
Wood added: “I want to reassure every family because of having their child with us in Leeds and any new parents who are fully committed to providing safe and emotional care,” Wood added.