James refused to accept the initial explanations he and his wife were given by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust for Joshua's death and made an official complaint about his treatment.
In September 2024, actor and filmmaker Jamie Thomas King, himself the father of a child who died in infancy due to failures in the National Health System, announced that he was adapting the book into a screenplay.
[10] In 2021, James was appointed as a Specialist Advisor to The Independent East Kent Maternity investigation, headed up by Dr Bill Kirkup.
[11] The Inquiry was started as a result of the inquest into Harry Richford that showed gross failings and that his death was "wholly avoidable".
[12] After the publication of the Ockenden Review he was still demanding that NHS adverts move away from messages that promote the role of midwives as ‘guardians of normal birth’.