Trust told to open up about ‘maternity scandal’ meeting

A trust under fire for quality and governance failures has been reprimanded by a watchdog for withholding information about a meeting of its senior leaders over maternity failures.

The row relates to a meeting of the CEO, chief medical officer and chief nurse of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust with the chair and director of corporate governance at Swansea Bay University Health Board in February this year.

Swansea has, like Leeds, been subject to major concerns about maternity and neonatal care failures in recent years, and in the summer was criticised in an independent review.

The online meeting was held weeks after LTHT admitted that the deaths of 56 babies and two mothers may have been preventable, as its maternity and neonatal services came under increased scrutiny.

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Source: Health Service Journal (21 November 2025)