Browsing: maternity

Families who lost babies at two hospitals in Leeds have said they are slowly regaining trust in the health secretary after the midwife Donna Ockenden was…

Once again, we are faced with a report detailing the failures in maternity services (Cruel comments, racism and cover-ups: key findings from England’s maternity care report,…

Perhaps the most dismaying thing about the interim maternity care report commissioned by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, is how little of it is new: entrenched…

The report highlighted “unacceptable” instances occurring where staff made cruel or insensitive comments to families when they were most vulnerable, including after baby loss.In one example,…

A father who has fought for a change in the law so that bereaved parents can look after their babies after the death of a partner…

Experts have criticised a “lost decade” of progress on parental rights after Guardian research suggested that fewer than one in 60 public sector workers are sharing…

The midwife leading the biggest inquiry into maternity failures in the history of the NHS is charging NHS England up to £26,000 a month for her…

In August, I traveled to Kakuma, Kenya, to try to understand what happened when the U.S. cut off food to the world’s third-largest refugee camp. Soon…

The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has quit after the announcement of an independent inquiry into maternity failings at an NHS trust he led…

The startling rise in the cost to the NHS in England of medical negligence cases, and a sharp increase in birth injuries to mothers, are the…