England’s maternity scandal engulfs another NHS trust
Dozens of babies’ deaths might have been avoided. Their families are fighting for answers
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Hannah Barnes
Hannah Barnes is the Investigations Editor at the New Statesman. She previously worked at the BBC. She is an award-winning journalist and author of “Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children” (Swift) – a Sunday Times Bestseller and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford and Orwell prizes.
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