As part of initiatives to enhance maternity services at Nottingham's hospitals, 18 midwives have been hired from South Africa.
The Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUH) acknowledged having difficulty filling the positions.
The Care Quality Commission gave its maternity services an "inadequate" rating, and Donna Ockenden is currently leading an independent review of the facility.
In May, the midwives will begin working.
The matter was discussed at a health scrutiny committee meeting of the Nottinghamshire County Council on Tuesday, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Anthony May, who became the NUH's new chief executive in September 2022, told the committee that Ms. Ockenden is met with every three months and that there is a "strong and senior commitment in the trust to resolve inadequacies.".
Labour councilwoman Michelle Welsh stated that the Ockenden review was taking a close look at her time as a new mother at NUH.
Life has been completely devastated by what has happened, she claimed.
Because of what happened to me and the fact that I work with these families and witness it every day, I am now a shadow of the person I once was. ".
Ms. Welsh also brought up the Wynter Andrews case, in which NUH was fined £800,000 last month for failing to give the infant and her mother Sarah Andrews safe care.
The crisis "started years ago; this is not something that happened overnight," she said.
"A letter to the board was sent by your own midwives. Some of them are still there today, and that letter was largely disregarded.
Families appreciate that you apologized to them, but we want action, not an apology. ".
According to Mr. May, the board now has a "strong sense of accountability" after the trust "failed the staff as well as the Andrews family and baby Wynter."
