'my Child Won't Walk Again After Failed Surgery'

"My girl walked into Addenbrooke's talking, and she was wheeled retired non-verbal."

A mother is demanding "accountability" from Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Trust aft 2 grounded surgeries successful 2018 near her girl pinch life-altering injuries.

The procedures were carried retired by advisor surgeon Kuldeep Stohr, who continued to practise astatine Addenbrooke's Hospital until 2024, contempt concerns raised arsenic early arsenic 2015.

A Verita report, commissioned by CUH, recovered "a bid of missed opportunities" to enactment connected warnings. The spot has accepted nan findings and apologised, adding that changes were nether way.

Natasha's daughter, Neave, was calved pinch positional talipes, a information causing inward-turning feet.

She could hop, skip, locomotion and dance, but had trouble moving and astatine 11, had a room that was intended to amended her mobility.

"That was astir apt nan past clip she walked and called maine mum," Natasha said of nan room which she described arsenic an "abject failure".

"She will ne'er locomotion again."

Neave, now 18, suffers from curvature of nan spine, musculus wastage, scar tissue, and deformed feet, Natasha added.

"I person blamed myself a batch for agreeing to nan room successful nan first place," she said.

A abstracted reappraisal examining astir 700 planned and 100 emergency operations involving Ms Stohr, immoderate of which were for adults, was ongoing.

The Verita report concluded that earlier action from CUH could person reduced harm.

One "pivotal missed opportunity" was CUH's nonaccomplishment to enactment connected a 2016 outer reappraisal of nan surgeon's work, nan study said.

However, Natasha criticised nan study arsenic "appalling," adding it focused much connected protecting nan hospital's estimation than answering questions aliases holding anyone accountable.

"[It] doesn't really reply immoderate questions and it doesn't really clasp anyone to account," she said.

"I don't consciousness arsenic if I tin spot what is being said to maine wrong that report."

Retired lawyer Radd Seiger, representing 25 affected families, said: "This was not a rogue surgeon — this was a rogue system."

He called for a judge-led nationalist enquiry and nan resignation of CUH main executive Roland Sinker.

Mr Sinker told BBC Look East he would not resign, stating nan spot was implementing plans to "put patients astatine nan heart" of early services.

In a abstracted statement, he said he was "sorry" to perceive Neave's communicative and promised to meet patients to perceive their feedback.

"This should not person happened and we are committed to making changes truthful it does not hap again," he said.

The Care Quality Commission was reviewing nan findings to find if regulatory action is needed.