FAMILIES who spent years campaigning over failings at a hospital maternity unit say they feel ignored by a review into the service, with one branding it a “scam.”

Dozens of Welsh parents spent years fighting to have Swansea Bay University Health Board launch the review of the unit at Singleton Hospital.

Rob Channon, whose son Gethin Channon suffered a catastrophic brain injury which left him quadriplegic, said: “We’re now eight months since the review was announced, and as far as we are aware, not a single record has been reviewed.

“You have a review where families are not involved and have been completely shut out.”

Donna Ockenden, a senior midwife who led a review of Nottingham’s maternity services, has backed calls for the review to be closed and a new “fit for purpose” review to be started in its place.

The board has insisted that it is committed to improving its services and that families are being communicated with.