Patient safety

Ministers remove adviser from national taskforce over ‘conflict of interest’

By 2026-07-03T11:50:00

Stephen Wardle

A medical adviser to the national maternity and neonatal taskforce has been asked to leave by ministers after they recognised “the depth of family concern” about his appointment.

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