Father to 6, only 5 living | Husband to Nurse | Fighting for Justice #Grief #Bereavedparent #AchingArms #EmptyArms #ChildLoss #MaternitySafety #PatientSafety
Lichfield, England
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This is the devastating impact the hospitals actions have had. The coroner ruled “neglect”, only the reverberations of his loss travel so much deeper. Watching our other children suffer his loss pains us to the core. The birth of a sibling should be a happy time, filled with love
WHY SHOULD I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN CQC RATINGS?
Today I was interviewed by BBC News for my opinion of the new CQC rating for University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.
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So how can I, or any other bereaved family, have confidence in a system that rated a service as Good when the care my son received ultimately led to a finding of neglect?
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A change in rating might demonstrate improvement, but it doesn't undo what happened, answer the questions or restore the confidence that families like ours have lost.
#ForZac
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Tim Taylor-Smith retweeted
Leeds ToR’s have now been published. I feel proud of how many families and experiences will be covered as part of this inquiry. In particular, including maternal deaths by suicide up to 1 year post birth. These women’s voices deserve to be heard too.
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Tim Taylor-Smith retweeted
This issue cannot be allowed to wait further while @DHSCgovuk considered internal review processes.
Our babies are the only deaths on society denied any route to coronial investigation - that fact does not rely on anything Health does, and must be rectified.
Tim Taylor-Smith retweeted
Baroness Amos examined the coroner issue in her @MatNeoInv and concluded that the @MoJGovUK should report without delay.
@ValerieAmos also said elsewhere that MOJ was not bound to wait for her report, and called delay unnecessary.
Tim Taylor-Smith retweeted
A year ago today, families wrote to the Lord Chancellor asking that the then 6½-year-old duty to report was completed.
A year later… we have only just secured a meeting. Another year’s worth of stillborn babies denied justice.
Tim Taylor-Smith retweeted
We've now turned our letter into an open letter, so anyone can sign - to support our search for truth and justice, to give us some accountability, and to stop our kids dying.
Read the letter and add your name here: openletter.earth/we-demand-a…
On the same link you will also find an accompanying briefing note, which gives more detail on the argument for a statutory public inquiry and counters many of those made against one.
Tim Taylor-Smith retweeted
I’ve been reluctant to support PI calls - but the Amos report was so flawed & so clearly influenced by the same ideological forces that have driven much of the harm we continue to see - I’m now convinced a PI is urgently needed. I’ve signed this letter & hope others will too.
We've now turned our letter into an open letter, so anyone can sign - to support our search for truth and justice, to give us some accountability, and to stop our kids dying.
Read the letter and add your name here: openletter.earth/we-demand-a…
On the same link you will also find an accompanying briefing note, which gives more detail on the argument for a statutory public inquiry and counters many of those made against one.
Tim Taylor-Smith retweeted
Yesterday, 160 harmed families, individuals and supporting organisations wrote to to @jamesmurray_ldn to demand a Statutory Public Inquiry into maternity and neonatal services in England.
You can now add your name alongside the original 160 signatories:
openletter.earth/we-demand-a…
The evidence is overwhelming.
The #Ockenden Nottingham Review found systemic failures, repeated missed opportunities to learn, poor investigations, toxic cultures, families ignored, and avoidable deaths and injuries affecting hundreds of mothers and babies.
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When inquiry after inquiry identifies the same problems, another review is not enough.
Families deserve a full statutory Public Inquiry with legal powers to compel evidence, examine national decision-making, and hold organisations and individuals accountable.
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Learning without accountability is not enough. Accountability is how lives are saved.
#MaternitySafety #PublicInquiry #PatientSafety #NHS
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