The New Statesman. Today, a joint New Statesman and BBC investigation leading the headlines

raises urgent new questions about maternity safety in England. As a national review into NHS

maternity services continues, launched amid warnings of systemic failures and a potential care crisis.

New evidence from Sussex suggests the scale of harm may be far greater than previously understood.

Earlier today, the Health Secretary Wes Streeting had this to say about the investigation.

I'm extremely concerned, but depressingly not surprised by what your investigation has shown up.

Maternity of all the patient safety issues is the one that gives me the most restless nights

when it comes to thinking about what families have told me about their experiences,

the ordeal they've been through, the loss they have suffered,

the injury that so many women and their babies and children have suffered.

And that's why I'm determined to make sure that in Sussex and across the country we get this

right.

I'm Anoush Shikelyan and you're listening to Daily Politics from the New Statesman.

I'm joined now by Hannah Barnes, our investigations editor.

Hi, Hannah.

Hi, Anish.

Hi.

I've just come out of reading your absolutely brilliant investigation with the BBC on this.

What first drew you to what was going on at Sussex?

Well, thank you.

I think Sussex is quite odd in that it had actually been promised its own independent review

when the national investigation into paternity and neonatal services was announced.

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