We’re keen to hear from women in the UK who experienced birth trauma, and about their experience of care in pregnancy and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The inquiry found new mothers had been left on blood-soaked sheets for hours, berated by midwives, or in one case been ...
An inquiry into traumatic childbirths has called for an overhaul of the UK's maternity and postnatal care after finding poor ...
In January, Southwark council established its maternity commission after a national report published last year revealed that ...
Birth trauma caused by mistakes and failures was “frequently covered up by hospitals”, a landmark report has found. The first parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma heard “harrowing ...
The birth of a new baby should be a time of joy and celebration and yet, increasingly, women are finding it one of lasting trauma and distress. Talk to mothers today and you'll find that so many ...
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 ...
“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.
A health minister has apologised after a new report concluded that poor care in maternity services is "frequently tolerated as normal". The parliamentary inquiry found there was "shockingly poor ...