Nottingham’s infant-deaths scandal shames the NHS

Nottinghamshire Police have opened a corporate-manslaughter investigation into Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) Trust, following the deaths of hundreds of babies at two local hospitals.

Police will examine whether the maternity-care programme at the Queen’s Medical Centre and the Nottingham City Hospital had been grossly negligent.

The number of deaths included in the probe may yet reach the thousands .

The infant deaths in Nottinghamshire are a devastating indictment of the NHS .

It exposes a system that is lethally incompetent and yet staggeringly complacent, bolstered by the undue reverence it’s afforded by the powers-that-be.

Unless the NHS undergoes significant reform, this won’t be the last terrible tragedy on its watch.