Jeremy Hunt says Shropshire maternity findings are 'utterly shocking'
Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said it is "shameful" that the burden for forcing an investigation into maternity services in the county fell on grieving families.
Mr Hunt MP, who ordered the inquiry into maternity services at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust in 2017 when he was Health Secretary, described Donna Ockenden's findings as "utterly shocking".
Addressing Health Minister Nadine Dorries in Parliament, he questioned why it had taken the efforts of Rhiannon Davies and Richard Stanton, and Kayleigh and Colin Griffiths, to ensure the situation was investigated.
He said: "This report happened because Rhiannon Davies and Richard Stanton, who lost their daughter Kate in 2009, and Kayleigh and Colin Griffiths, who lost their daughter Pippa in 2016, persuaded me that something needed to happen.
"But is it not shameful that we make it so hard for doctors and nurses in the NHS to speak out about tragedies they see and all the burden for change is left on the shoulders of grieving families?
