Ockenden report, as it happened: families call for public inquiry and say babies treated with ‘absence of dignity’

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Presenting some of her findings, Ockenden said her team found significant or major concerns in care where different or better care may have made a difference to the outcome" in the following cases:

21% of cases where mothers died,

26% of cases where mothers experienced a major obstetric haemorrhage,

36% of cases where a mother had an unplanned admission to intensive care,

20% of cases involving a mother's care when a baby was stillborn,

50% of a mother's care when a baby suffered hypoxic brain injury.