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Maternity Units Turning Away Women In Labour
Maternity units are turning away women in labour because they have no room, figures show. More than four in ten NHS hospitals refused to accept expectant mothers at least once last year. The figures, from 103 of the 147 NHS trusts with maternity services, were obtained by the Conservatives under the Freedom of Information Act.…
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Tagged Health, honorary secretary, Liberal Democrat, local maternity services, maternity services, National Childbirth Trust, National Health Service, Norman Lamb, Politics, Richard Warren, Royal College of Obstetricians, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, spokesman, University of Leicester
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Mothers at risk on substandard maternity wards
9th October 2008 Mothers in NHS maternity wards are suffering an increasing number of life-threatening incidents, it has been claimed. In just two years, the number of incidents reported to the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has almost doubled from 35,428 in 2005, to 70,108 cases last year. Doctors and nurses are expected to report any…
Mothers abandoned and hungry on maternity wards
27th November 2007 Thousands of women are being left to give birth terrified and alone due to a desperate shortage of midwives, says a damning report. The biggest ever survey of maternity services revealed how women are forced to have children in filthy wards and go hungry because they are not given enough to eat. Hundreds of thousands are…
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Tagged Childbirth, czar, Deputy general secretary, food, Gwyneth Lewis, hospital food, Louise Silverton, maternity services, Mid Staffordshire General, Midwife, Milton Keynes General, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Norman Lamb, Royal College of Midwives, Sue Eardley
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