Call for medical notes alert for maternity scandal families
When Kayleigh Griffiths lost her baby daughter, Pippa, in 2016 through maternity failings in Shropshire, she had no idea how many times she would have to retell her traumatic story at future medical appointments.
She has worked to get a so-called "Ockenden alert" on her medical notes – an idea which came out of meetings with other traumatised families.
Donna Ockenden is the senior midwife who led the 2022 review which found more than 200 babies and nine mothers in Shropshire could have survived with better care.
Mrs Grifiths wants the alert to be offered to more affected families, and eventually to people nationally.
She said it meant health workers "can see that alert and have a look at what that means for us".
"And it might just mean that they take a bit of extra time to read our notes, to understand what our history is, so that we don't have to keep going over that same story at every single appointment because it is retraumatising," she added.
Source: BBC News, 28 November 2025