Why has an NHS Trust failed to improve maternity care after a near-decade of failure?
is unfortunately just the latest marker in a near-decade of failure to improve maternity care at the trust. The revelation that inspectors considered closing the unit at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford comes nine years after the trust's head of midwifery made a similar recommendation for the same reasons - that it was a danger to women and babies. The failure to act decisively then allowed many poor practices to continue.
Consider the extraordinary deaths of two new mothers from herpes at two of the trust's hospitals, just six weeks apart in 2018. The trust told the families there was no connection between the deaths. There were. A BBC investigation three years later found they'd beenGetty Images Dr Moses also admitted that he hadn't told one family about the connections between the deaths, despite being in a meeting in which the mother of one of the women who had died asked explicitly about a link. He told the court that "my role was to assist the trust. I didn't know whose responsibility it was to tell" about the connection.
Olukemi Akinmeji, a black midwife, sued the trust for race discrimination and victimisation after colleagues "joked" that they should "check their bags" on her last day at the hospital. Ms Akinmeji, who worked at the William Harvey between 2018 and 2020, won her case.described hearing evidence of a broken working environment and a foul-mouthed registrar that one former colleague described as "totally unprofessional".
It's not as if East Kent has been left alone to sort its problems out. NHS England has been all over the trust for years, overseeing improvement plans and sending, as it announced in 2020, "an expert team into the trust to ensure that improvements are made immediately". Asked why their effort hadn't improved maternity care, NHS England couldn't provide an answer but said they had helped them recruit more nurses and midwives.
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