More than a decade of negligence, repeated errors, and ignored warnings have been reported in the devastating report on the maternity and neonatology services of two Nottingham hospitals, which was made public this Wednesday. The analysis of 2,511 cases – occurring mainly between 2012 and 2025, although some date back to 2006 – has allowed the team of independent researcher and midwife Donna Ockenden to document how hundreds of women were subjected to avoidable risks and treated with a "cruelty and brutality" that the report links to a "toxic" care culture. This is one of the most serious scandals in the history of the NHS, which thus adds another stain to a service in permanent crisis: understaffed, underfunded, and with overwhelmed waiting lists.