Atkins accepts calls for national maternity care plan after birth trauma report
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 normal”.
Victoria Atkins said “watch this space” as she pledged to set out a plan for how to make the system “faster, simpler and fairer” after “harrowing” stories were revealed during evidence from 1,300 people.
It comes after the all-party parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma, led by Tory MP Theo Clarke and Labour MP Rosie Duffield, concluded that women are often “treated as an inconvenience”.
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Victoria Atkins
The inquiry made a raft
