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Scotland

Full consultant-led maternity care to return to Moray in 2026

Full consultant-led maternity services will return to Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin in 2026, the Scottish Government has announced. Staffing shortages forced the services to be withdrawn in 2018, with ministers and the health board coming under ...

03 Mar 2023 at 16:55

Northern Ireland

System-wide change needed to improve maternity care in Northern Ireland – review

System-wide change is urgently needed to radically improve maternity care in Northern Ireland, an independent review has found. The review was led by Professor Mary Renfrew and makes a series of recommendations to transform services across ...

22 Oct 2024 at 11:30

Midwife officially launches review into maternity care at scandal-hit NHS trust

A senior midwife has urged families and staff members of an NHS trust embroiled in a scandal over baby deaths to come forward as an independent review into maternity failings was officially launched. Donna Ockenden is set to lead the ...

01 Sept 2022 at 10:56

‘Inadequate’ safety in Leicester maternity care ‘worrying but unsurprising’

The safety of some maternity services at a Leicester NHS trust being rated as inadequate by the health watchdog is “worrying but not unsurprising”, a law firm representing patients has said. Moosa-Duke Solicitors, based in the city, ...

20 Sept 2023 at 08:37

Scotland

Mothers of premature babies take neonatal unit campaign to Holyrood

Mothers of premature babies have staged a protest outside Holyrood against plans to downgrade the neonatal intensive care unit (Nicu) at Wishaw University Hospital. Following a petition which has gathered more than 14,000 ...

10 Nov 2023 at 12:04

Parents living ‘life sentence’ since death of 14-day-old baby boy

The parents of a baby boy who died 14 days after being born by emergency Caesarean section have spoken of how they are living a “life sentence” as they called for more openness in the health service. An inquest has ...

14 Mar 2024 at 14:50

Epidurals cut risk of severe childbirth complications by 35%, research finds

Women who have an epidural during labour face a lower risk of severe complications during childbirth, according to a study. Making epidurals more widely available and providing more information to those who would ...

22 May 2024 at 23:30

Regulator sounds alarm over ‘culture’ in maternity care

Midwifery leaders have sounded the alarm over poor workplace cultures in maternity services. Some midwives are not always speaking up when they see something that is not right, and not communicating well enough ...

03 Aug 2023 at 00:01

Hospital recruitment drive undermined due to ‘racism by colleagues’ – report

A hospital trust’s international recruitment drive to try to increase the number of midwives was “undermined” as staff faced racism from their own colleagues, health inspectors have said. International members ...

05 Jul 2024 at 00:01

Scotland

Swinney seeks to reassure maternity patients facing ‘long journey’ for care

John Swinney has sought to reassure patients in the Highlands and islands who face a “long and difficult journey” for maternity care. Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said some women are ...

05 Dec 2024 at 13:21

Different decisions could have cost another life, medic tells baby death inquiry

A specialist has defended her decisions around the delivery of a baby who died a week after birth and said managing it differently could have lost another life, an inquiry heard. Freya Murphy died on July ...

30 Oct 2024 at 15:46

Safety of maternity care at two NHS trust hospitals rated ‘inadequate’

The safety of maternity care at two sites run by a Midlands NHS trust has been rated as “inadequate” following a “deterioration in the level of care”, the health watchdog has said. The Care Quality ...

20 Sept 2023 at 00:01

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