Postcode lottery of maternity services highlighted in new report
A health minister has apologised after a new report concluded that poor care in maternity services is “frequently tolerated as normal”.
The parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma is calling for a national plan to improve maternity care, as it claimed women are often “treated as an inconvenience”.
Health minister Maria Caulfield said that maternity services “have not been where we want them to be” when she was challenged about the findings of the report.
The all-party inquiry, led by MP Theo Clarke and MP , called for the creation of a maternity commissioner reporting to
