Overview

• The investigation will examine maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust after allegations of repeated failures.
• A chair and terms of reference have not yet been set, while Leeds remains part of the national rapid review led by Baroness Amos.
• The CQC rated the trust inadequate in June, citing serious risks to women and babies and a deep-rooted blame culture.
• Reporting has identified at least 56 baby deaths since 2019 that might have been preventable, and whistleblowers say units remain unsafe.
• Official data show Leeds as an outlier on perinatal mortality at one of Europe’s largest teaching hospitals, as the NAO warns of rising maternity negligence costs nationally.