NOTTINGHAM — The Care Quality Commission rated maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust as 'requires improvement' following an inspection in May 2025. The CQC published a report on the inspection in March, finding that maternity services at both Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital had improved.

Michelle Welsh, Labour MP for Sherwood Forest, stated she was in conversations with the Department of Health and Social Care regarding a public inquiry. Welsh was appointed as the government's maternity adviser last month. She said: "I was even approached by a senior obstetrician at the [Nottingham] trust who arranged a meeting at my office under a different name not to discuss solutions, not to listen to families, but to persuade me there wasn't a problem, to convince me that maternity services at Nottingham university hospitals trust were fine, that what families were saying wasn't true, and the midwives stepping forward to not believe them, yet every week more families came forward, more midwives came forward."

Donna Ockenden is leading an inquiry into maternity care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which began in May 2022. The inquiry covers cases between April 1, 2012, and May 31, 2025, and involves 2,505 families. Approximately 850 staff and former staff of the trust have provided evidence to the inquiry. Ockenden stated that work remains to be done in Nottingham's maternity services. Anthony May, who became chief executive of the trust in 2022, has apologized to families affected by the trust's shortcomings.