Mothers and babies at risk of harm in ‘toxic’ NHS cover-up culture, health leader to say

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Mothers and babies at risk of harm in ‘toxic’ NHS cover-up culture, health leader to say

Head of GMC to say ‘something must have gone badly wrong’ when trainee doctors are fearful of speaking up

Mothers and babies being harmed in the NHS risks becoming normalised because of its toxic cover-up culture, a health leader will say, as it emerged that 14 trusts are the focus of a national maternity investigation in England.

Charles Massey, the chief executive of the General Medical Council, will tell a conference on Monday that “something must have gone badly wrong” when trainee obstetrics and gynaecology doctors are fearful of speaking up.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge university hospitals NHS trust.

Blackpool teaching hospitals NHS foundation trust.

Bradford teaching hospitals NHS foundation trust.

East Kent hospitals NHS trust.

Gloucestershire hospitals NHS foundation trust.

Leeds teaching hospitals NHS trust.

Oxford university hospitals NHS foundation trust.

Sandwell and West Birmingham hospitals NHS trust.

Shrewsbury and Telford hospital NHS trust.

The Queen Elizabeth hospital, King’s Lynn NHS foundation trust.

University hospitals of Leicester NHS trust.

University hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS foundation trust.

University hospitals Sussex NHS foundation trust.

Yeovil district hospital NHS foundation trust/Somerset NHS foundation trust.

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