We’re keen to hear from women in the UK who experienced birth trauma, and about their experience of care in pregnancy and ...
An inquiry into traumatic childbirths has called for an overhaul of the UK's maternity and postnatal care after finding poor ...
“Birth is very safe in the UK but there are clear disparities and areas for vast improvement,” says Dr Hannah Rayment-Jones, a midwife and research fellow at King’s College London.
The recent governmental review into maternity services in the UK has shone a glaring light on a distressing reality: many women and families are left with unresolved trauma after childbirth. As a ...
Inquiry hears ‘harrowing’ testimonies and finds postcode lottery for quality of maternity care in England A health minister has apologised to women affected by birth trauma after a ...
In January, Southwark council established its maternity commission after a national report published last year revealed that women from black ethnic groups were four times more likely to die in ...
The inquiry found new mothers had been left on blood-soaked sheets for hours, berated by midwives, or in one case been dismissed as an "anxious mother" when her baby later died from complications that ...
At least the baby’s healthy – that’s the main thing. If I heard that sometimes well-meant, sometimes passive-aggressive, always dismissive phrase once, I heard it a dozen times in the hours ...
A parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma is calling for a national plan to improve maternity care as it found good care is “the exception rather than the rule”. The report, published on ...
An inquiry into traumatic childbirths has called for an overhaul of the UK's maternity and postnatal care after finding poor care is "all-too-frequently tolerated as normal". The Birth Trauma ...
The UK’s maternity and postnatal care has been called into question, after a new inquiry detailed the ‘harrowing’ experiences of new mothers. The inquiry into childbirth trauma, which spoke ...
The Health Secretary has accepted calls for a national strategy to improve maternity services after a damning report into birth trauma found poor-quality care is “all too frequently tolerated as ...