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The BBC obtained data from the trust showing potentially preventable baby deaths through a Freedom of Information request.<\/p>\n
This revealed at least 56 cases from January 2019 to July 2024, made up of 27 stillbirths and 29 neonatal deaths – which is a death within 28 days after birth.<\/p>\n
In each case, a trust review group had identified care issues it considered may have made a difference to the outcome for babies.<\/p>\n
The trust-led reviews were conducted by multidisciplinary teams which regularly included people who did not work for the trust.<\/p>\n
The trust also recorded two possibly preventable maternal deaths in the same period.<\/p>\n
It did not give any personal details about the 58 deaths, so we do not know whether they include the families we have spoken to.<\/p>\n
The deaths reviewed by the trust included babies with congenital abnormalities, and newborns and mothers transferred after birth from other units because they required specialist care.<\/p>\n
The trust said the number of neonatal deaths it had recorded as potentially avoidable was “very small”.<\/p>\n
LTH had the highest neonatal mortality rate in the UK of 4.46 per 1,000 live births in 2022, according to the latest report by MBRRACE-UK – which reviews stillbirths and neonatal deaths but does not analyse if any of these are potentially preventable.<\/p>\n
BBC analysis of this data, which was made public last July, shows this increased from 3.30 per 1,000 live births in 2017. <\/p>\n
The LTH 2022 figure is 70% higher than the average rate for comparable NHS trusts.<\/p>\n
MBRRACE-UK grouped Leeds with 25 other trusts which it says provide a similar level of care. Specifically, they all have a level three (the highest level) neonatal intensive care unit and perform neonatal surgery. The group is complex, with different specialisms.<\/p>\n
LTH told the BBC there are an increasing number of complex pregnancies and births in the region – including an increase in babies born with severe cardiac conditions – leading to an increase in the neonatal mortality rate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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