'If you hadn't done X, your baby may have lived': Failure to listen to families 'key issue' in Shropshire baby deaths scandal

The former senior midwife leading an independent inquiry into baby deaths at scandal-hit Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust said a failure to listen to families was the key issue.

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Donna Ockenden, top right, was giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee, chaired by Jeremy Hunt

Donna Ockenden told the Commons Health and Social Care Committee there was a "culture" of blaming parents at SaTH.

Last week, Ms Ockenden's interim report identified a number of "deeply worrying themes" about staff at the trust.

Ms Ockenden told the committee on Tuesday: "I think the one issue that stands out above everything else was a failure to listen to families.

"We've come across a lot of families who tried really hard to get the system - the trust - to listen to them.

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