A major NHS maternity inquiry into Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has uncovered evidence of hostile treatment of women in labour, discrimination, and unsafe staffing levels that midwives say led to a collapse in compassion.

The Panorama investigation into Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust's maternity unit reveals a 13-year inquiry covering 2,500 families, with evidence of staff writing 'FOH' ('fuck off home') next to women's names, senior midwives advising others not to be 'too kind', bias against South Asian women as described by inquiry lead Donna Ockenden, and cases where women were warned off coming to hospital so long that one arrived to find her baby dead and her perineum and vaginal wall had collapsed.