A landmark parliamentary inquiry on birth trauma in the UK reveals shockingly poor quality of maternity care, with overwork and understaffing being endemic. The report calls for a national plan to improve maternity services after hearing harrowing evidence from 1,300 women. Labour MP Rosie Duffield and a cross-party group of MPs lead the inquiry, demanding serious change in the maternity care system.
The trauma of her own childbirth led the politician to launch an inquiry into the nation’s maternity care. Its report is damning ⬇️ https://t.co/6knuhITmz2
I’m delighted that the Health Secretary attended the report launch of the national #BirthTraumaInquiry in Parliament on Monday. @VictoriaAtkins responded to our recommendations and accepted the APPG for Birth Trauma’s headline ask for a comprehensive national #maternity strategy. https://t.co/ebj6d7q181
MARINA FOGLE: I suffered a terrible birth trauma and I'm horrified at the state of NHS maternity care. This is what needs to change https://t.co/WktJIB8GOS https://t.co/kK7YWBzRUR
The first ever parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma in the UK has found “shockingly poor quality” of care in a maternity system where overwork and understaffing are “endemic” https://t.co/Glxu7jUpnZ
The Birth trauma inquiry report was launched today and we are sad to hear the harrowing experiences of women and birthing people Good care should be the norm, not an exception and it’s starts with listening to women Thank you @SkyNews for having us on earlier today https://t.co/qwN4VwUgRI
"We do need to be demanding serious change, because this is an absolute scandal." @SophyRidgeSky discusses the Birth Trauma Inquiry into maternity care services. #PoliticsHub https://t.co/GlTNastFii 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/TMaIO719Ja
A landmark parliamentary inquiry into traumatic childbirths has called for an overhaul of the UK's maternity services. On the Daily, @MattBarbet speaks to campaigner and mother-of-two @TinukeAwe about her experiences. 🎧 Listen 👉 https://t.co/IJafU5jPf9
🗣️ 'I have plenty of friends who had a very bad experience [with childbirth] and that experience lives with you for life' @CamillaTominey reflects on the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Birth Trauma Listen here ⬇️ https://t.co/5ntJ1ZzSzr https://t.co/jHOcV5EktC
There’s a story today that I really want talk about. The Birth Trauma Inquiry – by a cross party group of MPs – has called for a national plan to improve maternity care, after speaking to 1,300 women and finding “shockingly poor quality” in how we look after women giving birth.…
'We were surprised about how rife these problems are throughout the country.' Labour MP, Rosie Duffield, discusses a parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma which has found there was "shockingly poor quality" in maternity services. https://t.co/Zgfu8bwiBt
Opinion I I welcome the news that the Birth Trauma Inquiry is calling for a national plan to improve maternity care after it heard harrowing evidence from 1,300 women 🖋️ @LaurenMedlicott 🔗 https://t.co/qpOsnEfBlT https://t.co/5vjK3NTTK5
Today's landmark report on birth trauma makes for sobering reading. Pregnant women and mothers are being utterly failed by maternity services where good care is "the exception rather than the rule". Massive thank you to @RosieDuffield1 and @theodoraclarke for leading on this… https://t.co/POPQrp5VZD