Allegations have emerged that staff at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust criticised families involved in the Donna Ockenden independent maternity review, accusing them of seeking compensation and grooming others to join the review. The review, opened after alleged harm to babies and mothers, now involves nearly 2,500 families. Families report being stigmatised, gaslit and criticised for campaigning for better services. Campaigners who formerly worked at the trust and suffered a stillbirth described comments as horrific and unfathomably heartless and reported being labelled 'compo seekers'. Trust leadership called the alleged remarks shocking and acknowledged families' distress.
Some families very recently have fed back to me shocking examples of being stigmatised or gaslit - criticised for either being part of the independent review or for campaigning for better services. Families have heard that they are criticised for being in the review, and that they are in the review on the basis that they are seeking compensation. The families tell me that there are instances where they feel they have reason to believe they can trace that back to colleagues that work in NUH.
We have been called 'compo seekers'. There has been a comment made that people are in this group because they have been groomed by Sarah and I and other people who have been around for a long time, and that has come out of NUH. We want change. We don't have any other reason to be in this fight. The first thing to allow you to change is to recognise that you need to change.
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