AN NHS trust has thanked its staff “for working tirelessly to make sure that patients and families receive the best possible care” during the Covid-19 pandemic by giving them a meal voucher.
The voucher, which expires on February 28, entitles the recipient to “a hot or cold meal plus hot or cold drink of your choice” at one of Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust’s onsite catering facilities.
The Christmas “bonus” was included in a thank-you card to staff members sent on behalf of chief executive Louise Barnett.
Ms Barnett, who is reportedly on a salary over £140,000 per year, described how she “had seen colleagues working under tremendous pressure in response to the coronavirus pandemic.”
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A hospital trust where 42 babies and 13 mothers died in 20 years had a culture of wrongly blaming parents, the former senior midwife leading an inquiry has told MPs today.
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust was condemned in an interim report by Donna Ockenden last week, highlighting a range of failures including not properly listening to parents.
Ms Ockenden told the Commons Health and Social Care Committee on Tuesday that there was a culture of blaming mothers and fathers, but also that the trust failed to get to the bottom of why babies died.
She said the trust had its own mechanism for dealing with complaints, which did not follow national guidance, and was only ever engaged when legal action was threatened or a complaint was made.
Most of the cases happened between 2000 and 2019.
She told the Health and Social Care Select Committee that she believed the main reason the scandal went on for so long is a failure of the trust to listen to families. Image: Independent midwife Donna Ockenden identified a culture of blaming the mother There was a culture of this is your fault to the mother. If you hadn t done X your baby would have lived , she told MPs.
Sky News has been shown a letter that has been sent to all trusts in England, in which Ms Ockenden outlines the immediate actions required in order to improve safety of maternity services.
This was the front page that exposed the hospital maternity unit horror. The Trust s response? Scaremongering. irresponsible. untrue . So, how COULD they have sunk so low?
The report revealed how more than 60 babies and mothers were feared to have died or suffered devastating harm at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital
The Trust s response was irresponsible, scaremongering, and untrue
A report published yesterday identified hundreds of cases of potentially sub-standard care which contributed to the deaths of a dozen women and babies