East Kent maternity deaths: Babies might have survived with better care

Speaking ahead of the report’s publication, Dr Kirkup told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “When I reported on Morecambe Bay maternity services in 2015, I did not imagine for one moment that I would be back in seven years’ time talking about a rather similar set of circumstances and that there would have been another two large, high-profile maternity failures as well on top of that.