Health · 6 November 2025
Oxford hospitals face review over baby deaths
Britain faces escalating maternity care crisis with Oxford University Hospitals under investigation over deaths including avoidable stillbirths. Health Secretary Wes Streeting calls failures a national scandal, with nearly half of England's maternity units requiring improvement. Major investigations continue at Nottingham reviewing 1,700 cases and Leeds confirmed in October, following previous scandals at Shrewsbury, East Kent, and Morecambe Bay that revealed hundreds of preventable deaths and systematic care failures.
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