Ryan Lock

Daddy to 3 beautiful children, one now in the sky due to NHS negligence. Personal account, all views my own.

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@ChrisMcIlgorm No it does not Chris. The complaint department will initially deal with the complaint and will have a certain timeframe to respond and then dependent on complaint and area in NHS have the relevant managers involved to resolve. Hope this helps

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@JamesTitcombe Were you not promoting a no blame culture last year James?

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@piersmorgan Oh dear Piers, talk about opening your mouth too quick for a change!

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@themichaelowen 100% @themichaelowen - we were so positive and were winning up till our goal and then we sat back and that attitude and tactics lost us that game, and ultimately that is done to the manager.
No different to Southgate

[Emily Barley @EmilyJBarley]

Yesterday we wrote to @jamesmurray_ldn demanding a statutory public inquiry on maternity & neonatal care. By 'we', I mean 160 harmed/bereaved families, charities & other orgs, and supportive individuals.

The breadth of support is significant and new. The horrors in the Nottingham Ockenden report and the complete inadequacy of the Amos report have (in very different ways!) made many people rethink the need for a statutory public inquiry.

This time, we're even backed by clinicians. This is very new. I am personally extremely grateful to anyone currently working in the NHS, in these toxic times, who has stood side by side with us and signed.

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@ShaunLintern @LucyGoBag @bumblebeenush We need accountability @ShaunLintern

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@MichelleWelshMP @KenZeroHarm @OckReview @MichelleWelshMP what about a plan to deliver justice for families who have equally suffered to maternity failures, deep rooted toxic NHS culture all round the country?

[Maternity: Right to Recover Campaign @maternityR2R]

Tomorrow, the Independent Maternity Review of Nottingham will be published. Whatever its findings reveal, it must reignite a wider conversation about accountability for partners who suffer psychological harm as a result of avoidable and mismanaged maternity care.

Pregnancy, birth and maternity care are not experiences endured by mothers alone. They are uniquely shared experiences.

Despite clear NHS guidance promoting the involvement of partners throughout the pregnancy and maternity journey, since January 2024 the law continues to provide little recognition or accountability when partners suffer psychological injury. In most cases, doctors owe a duty of care only to the patient, leaving many fathers and partners who experience profound psychological trauma as a consequence of maternity failings in legal limbo—effectively erased as victims of that harm.

NHS guidance sets clear expectations for trusts to adopt family-centred care and to recognise fathers and partners as active participants in maternity care, not merely visitors or observers. Yet when things go wrong, those same partners often find themselves excluded from both support and legal remedy.

Whatever the review concludes, it should prompt serious consideration of whether the current framework adequately recognises the impact of maternity failings on partners and whether greater accountability is needed for the psychological harm they can suffer.

@jamesmurray_ldn @MichelleWelshMP @AlexJJNorris @steveyemm @MichaelPayneUK @NadiaWhittomeMP @LilianGreenwood @adamthompson111 @JOCampbellMP @jameswnaish @AndyMacNaeMP @Andyburn @NHSResolution @DOckendenLtd @OckReview

[BabylossMummy @babylossmummy]

This is why there needs to be a public inquiry @jamesmurray_ldn they have been allowed to leave take up roles in other trusts to repeat the same mistakes with zero accountability. The regulators are not dealing with these toxic managers it will only get worse not better unless these people are made to be accountable #pi #publicinquiry #gmc #cqc #nmc #notfitforpurpose #nottingham #wynterandrews #ockenden

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

I must confess to being a bit emotional this morning at the news of a knighthood for Kevin Sinfield.

I’ve always called him ‘Sir Kev’ and it’s hard to think of a man more deserving. He showed us all what it is to be a friend. What it means to step up when people need you and he did it all for his mate ❤️

After he carried Rob across the line in the Leeds marathon someone sent me this poem anonymously and I kept it on my phone. They called it ‘Arise Sir Kev’…

When shadows gathered, and hearts would break
Kev knew it was time to take…
One step, another, through wind and rain,
Carrying hope, despite the pain.

He never stopped, mile after mile,
Driven by loyalty, strength… a smile.
For Rob, his friend, he aim was true
Showing us all, what friendship can do.

Not measured in trophies, applause, or fame…
But turning up, again and again.
And in every mile he chose to run,
He showed us how friendship is truly done.

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@LOZM2406 Sorry to hear pal, hope your doing ok 👍

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@BoWynStorm @jamesmurray_ldn @UHMBT The need for a public enquiry is now, it should have happened years ago. I truly hope the Nottingham inquiry helps escalate change and accountability.
My thoughts to all the families, like we, that have suffered ❤️
@MidwivesRCM @NHSEngland

[Ryan Lock @RyanLock8]

@BoWynStorm @jamesmurray_ldn @UHMBT Ida’s case and many others around the country are examples of this rotten maternity culture. It is inexcusable that there is still no accountability in the system and why tragedies continue
Shame on the government, NHS leaders, regulators for basically not doing your job properly

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PANORAMA AIRED THE NHS MATERNITY SCANDAL

@BBCPanorama aired on 1 June 2026. The documentary covers Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, nearly 2,500 families, stillbirths, neonatal deaths, babies left with permanent brain injuries, cases stretching back to 2012. The trust has been rated inadequate since 2020. Nottinghamshire Police have opened a corporate manslaughter investigation, Operation Perth. Donna Ockenden's review, the largest maternity inquiry in NHS history, has already handed 200 files to police. The final report lands 24 June 2026.

The trust chief executive apologised before the cameras even turned on. Families have been collecting apologies for over a decade.

None of this is about understaffing. None of it is about funding. None of it is about missing equipment. Every NHS Trust that leads with those three excuses when maternity scandals surface is deflecting. The real problem is cultural. A system that believes its own moral authority supersedes accountability to the people inside it.

Panorama named it. Police are investigating it. Donna Ockenden (@DOckendenLtd) is documenting it for the third time across different NHS trusts.

Allister Frost (Linkedin), a startup mentor and former Microsoft executive who runs NHSlives com, says he experienced this nearly 12 years ago.

He observed, recorded, and documented what he calls a deliberate plan by NHS midwives to discredit him and his partner through falsified entries in his daughter's medical records, starting a month before her birth.

He says his partner and daughter survived. Many did not. No inquiry, he says, will fix a culture that has to be rebuilt from the ground up.

@BBCPanorama (aired 1 June 2026)
@BBCNews
@Channel4News (joint 2020 investigation with The Independent)
@Independent

[Aubrey’s Dad @DadOfAubrey]

The @MatNeoInv is now actively contributing to harm.

Affected families are learning major changes to publication timing and trust-level reporting from journalists, not from the investigation itself.

Any pretence of “families first” is disappearing fast.

[Aubrey’s Dad @DadOfAubrey]

This won’t surprise many who’ve had to deal with @nmcnews.

But it’s still a fundamental regulatory failure.

Any maternity ‘review’ excluding regulators is inadequate.

A PI encompassing the whole maternity ecosystem is needed.

https://t.co/OwtbRwLncW

[Aubrey’s Dad @DadOfAubrey]

Everytime the @MatNeoInv was challenged, the counter was that it would be followed by the Taskforce in which @wesstreeting was personally invested.

The weakness of the review is now unjustifiable, and a Public Inquiry is the only answer.

Thoughts going to Notts Families today.