Ignoring women’s experience led to the NHS’s biggest maternity scandal

Ockenden report confirms need for a UK agency to deal with all healthcare complaints properly

“…While it is currently popular to view all problems through the prism of identity politics,1 it is unhelpful to consider the failings of maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust as being about women or for that matter about maternity services. There is a far more fundamental cultural problem in UK healthcare: it seeks to shut down and suppress complaints of all types rather than look at them in detail.…”