cqc served the trust with a warning notice and told them that they needed to make significant improvements to improve the care and treatment the patient received. we will continue to work closely with the trust to make sure that those improvements are made and the trust have already started making some of those improvements to improve patient care. but, you know, local people should be reassured that the trust are working really hard to ensure that patients receive appropriate care and treatment. the question we wanted to ask the cqc, and they told us no one was available for a newsnight interview, was whether regulators had missed opportunities in the past to uncover what was happening at uhb. as newsnight has previously reported, there have been numerous warnings to regulators about both the workplace culture and patient safety concerns. look, i just want to thank everybody for coming today.
kong and then to have additionality. so for example, he has cited you have a 16 year old orphan from east africa, they should have a safe route to come here. he doesn t know whether he has got that, but we think we are looking at that sort of area. you think there will be a fight? this is what we think the movement from the government might be tomorrow in this area. thank movement from the government might be tomorrow in this area. be tomorrow in this area. thank you very much. be tomorrow in this area. thank you very much. nick- over the past six months, newsnight has investigating failings at university hospitals birmingham nhs foundation trust. soon after concerns were raised by patients and clinicians around culture and patient safety concerns documented by newsnight the care quality commission carried out an urgent, unnannouced inspection in december into medical care services at good hope hospital. these services were already rated requires improvement. today, the cqc
our daughter started identifying as, first, nonbinary, and then trans boy during the lockdown period. mm hmm. before that, we d had no indication that there was anything that she was unhappy about. 0ur child has autism, has had difficulties with, you know, mental health, and they re same sex attracted all things that we have come to understand are quite common factors that go along with a trans identity. their child won t be seen at the gender identity development service, or gids, the only dedicated nhs youth gender clinic in england and wales. after the service was rated inadequate by the health care regulator the cqc and an independent review into this area of health care led by dr hilary cass called for a fundamentally different service model, gids was officially earmarked for closure last summer.
sadly, we are not the only family harmed by the trust s failings. we feel that this sentence isn t just for wynter, but it s for all the other babies that have gone before and after her. now, in explaining her sentencing, the districtjudge said the trust s failures were more than sufficient to cause harm to wynter and her mother, sarah. but she said she was also acutely aware the fine would be paid for by funding that would usually be used for patient care. describing this as a delicate balance to strike. she also mentioned that the trust is operating with a continuing deficit. now, the wider picture here is that the trust s maternity services have been rated as inadequate by the cqc since 2020. and this all comes against a backdrop of a wide ranging review into those maternity services by the independent midwife donna 0ckendon. now, that started in september
was hearing that they put together a confidential report, which they sent to the care quality commission. it was really clear that people were being discouraged from reporting incidents, because the trust management wanted to say they ran an exemplary hospital and they didn t have any problems. then when you started digging in further, you could see that, you know, the use of disciplinary procedures against senior medics to try and stop them from being whistle blowers. the cqc say they considered the unison report when they conducted their most recent assessment of uhb, which ranked the trust as requires improvement . uhb told us they hadn t received or seen a copy of the unison report, and so couldn t fairly comment. they denied that staff were bullied or intimidated by management. since our initial investigation, the local health board has announced three separate reviews looking into the allegations we raised. the trust told us these are now well under way. david grossman, bbc news