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In October, Health Secretary Wes Streeting confirmed there would be an independent inquiry into the trust's maternity units. Mr Green said he felt the trust was more concerned with protecting its reputation than with bereaved families, and suggested there was a "culture of arrogance". He said a resident doctor - formerly known as a junior doctor, a person who has completed their medical degree and is now working - attempted to manually rotate Freyja in the birth canal before she was then taken to theatre for a forceps delivery. The baby needed resuscitation and tests revealed she had serious neck and spinal injuries from the forceps. "There were no cries, no sound," Mr Green said. "Just beeping machines, hushed whispers and a lot of heaviness in the air. "That was when it really hit home. When there was no cry from Freyja, that was really quite hard." After a couple of hours Mr Green said he and Freyja's mother were told the baby had a neck and spine fracture and was not breathing on her own so needed to be moved to Leeds General Infirmary's specialist unit. The baby had more tests and on the third day a consultant sat the parents down and explained her spine was fractured in three places and her spinal cord severed. "We were told she would never walk or talk or breathe on her own," Mr Green said. "She'd constantly be at the hospital and would never have a life." Freyja's life support was removed and she died on 15 March 2019. Mr Green said there was "no empathy in that discussion" and he thought some NHS staff could be "desensitised" to giving bad news. He said they were offered very little bereavement support and at his daughter's inquest he found hospital notes had been changed, but the resident doctor involved in the birth had not been required to attend the hearing.
