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Health Secretary Wes Streeting told Channel 4 News “this is something I feel personally responsible for”, when asked if he would stake his political reputation on sorting out the state of England’s maternity services.

He was questioned by Cathy Newman following an exclusive joint investigation by Channel 4 News and the New Statesman into Oxford University NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust, and the maternity and neonatal unit at John Radcliffe Hospital.

Reacting to the findings, the Health Secretary said “it’s truly shocking and on so many levels. It’s hard to put into words a reaction.”

“Some of the hardest conversations I’ve had in this job in the last year have been with families who have described in that kind of detail similar harrowing experiences that should never happen in the

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