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 Conservative MP Theo Clarke and Labour MP Rosie Duffield, called for the creation of a maternity commissioner reporting to the prime minister.
I have presented the Prime Minister with his copy of our Birth Trauma Inquiry report and I call on the Government to implement our recommendations in full so that all mums get the after care they need in 🇬🇧.
— Theo Clarke MP (@theodoraclarke)
