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Health Secretary Wes Streeting announces renowned senior British midwife Donna Ockenden as the chair of the Leeds Maternity Inquiry - which will examine the reports of avoidable deaths of at least 56 babies and two mothers over five years at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's Hospital.
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00:00Well I'm really pleased that today we're announcing the inquiry into maternity and
00:04neonatal services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. It's one of the largest hospital trusts
00:10in Europe and we've seen from the harrowing accounts of families, the babies that have died,
00:18the women that have been harmed and the whole families left picking up the pieces of the
00:24damage that is done and the irreparable damage that is done to people's lives when the
00:29NHS gets things so badly wrong and we've also seen not just in Leeds but in other high-profile
00:35cases across the NHS a culture of cover-up which is an unsafe culture.
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