the nursing and midwifery council describes frequent incompetency.irst being raced to the completion of all cases. the organisation lost records and failed to investigate allegations, and the jibbon breathed their lives, people like kyle, is also syriza criticise. in terms of where they have engaged with patients and families, the important thing is that they take the relevant information given to them seriously, rather than discounting. the nursery and midwifery council's chief executive has announced that she will resign and says that since 2014, significant changes have been made to how the organisation works. but this review leaves open the question as to whether the organisation that oversees midwives is fit for purpose. dominic hughes, bbc news. this is the briefing from bbc news. the latest headlines: north korea has said that if washington continues to push it to unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons, it may cancel next month's talks between president trump and kim jong—un. the imprisoned former opposition leader in malaysia, anwar ibrahim

first, tell us will be nursing and midwifery council is? to the midwifery council is? s the length of time it took. eight years, from the first concerns being raised to the end result, which was three midwives being struck off and one being suspended. during those eight years they were still practising and other babies suffered avoidable harm. that was one issue. the other one was the way they dealt with the families. there were coming to them with concerns and they felt they were not being taken seriously enough. concerns and they felt they were not being taken seriously enoughm concerns and they felt they were not being taken seriously enough. in a way, even though they were the regulator of midwives, they were acting more like a union representing the midwives?“ acting more like a union representing the midwives? it feels like there was a certain defensiveness. cumbria police were investigating 22 cases. at one stage they went to them with the evidence and it seems like nothing's there is no evidence that the nmc acted on that. any more criticisms, and how have they

a review found the nursing and midwifery council failed to take bereaved families seriously, and tookary cases. 11 babies and a mother died at furness general hospital in barrow between 2004 and 2013. the report says some of the deaths may have been avoidable. here's our health correspondent dominic hughes. mistakes by midwives cost carl hendrickson the lives of his wife nittaya and newborn son chester. they were among 12 deaths in the maternity unit at furness general hospital between 2004 and 2013. but when carl turned to the organisation that is meant to regulate midwives, the nursing and midwifery council, he was let down again. well, i was devastated when my wife and son died, so i needed help. i needed to find out the truth. and the nmc at no stage offered any help. never contacted me. there was certainly no empathy or compassion. they were just a disgrace, they were almost not human. today's report describes the handling of disciplinary cases by the nmc as frequently being incompetent. it took eight years from concerns first being raised to the completion of all cases. the orga

a review has found the nursing and midwifery council failed to take bereaved families seriously, and truth. and the nmc at no stage offered any help. never contacted me. there was certainly no empathy or compassion. they were just a disgrace, they were almost not human. today‘s report describes the handling of disciplinary cases by the nmc as frequently being incompetent. it took eight years from concerns first being raised to the completion of all cases. the organisation lost records and failed to investigate allegations and the treatment of bereaved families, people like carl, was also seriously criticised. these families had lost either babies or in one case mother and baby, they were going through a terrible personal tragedy, they needed to be treated with compassion but most importantly, their evidence needed to be treated with respect. it was the lethal mix of failures in care here at furness general hospital that has led to today‘s report. but the nursing and midwifery council is only the latest in a long series of organisations associated with the health service to have let d

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