She described sitting alongside expectant parents and families before receiving difficult news about her fertility. “It was heartbreaking,” she added. “I went in for my appointment, which was a hard appointment, and then had to walk back out past those families.” The South Eastern Trust, where Smyth was treated, said it hopes to relocate outpatient…
Although there is statutory maternity and paternity leave – which guarantees time off and partial income compensation – not everyone takes it. Women can get six weeks before their due date and eight weeks after giving birth. Fathers get up to four weeks of flexible paid leave within eight weeks of a child’s birth. Both…
A review into maternity safety in England was changed just days before publication to remove criticism of a “normal birth drive”, according to a former member of the inquiry team. The campaign, which encourages vaginal birth without any medical intervention and is backed by many midwives, has been found to have contributed to avoidable deaths…
The National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, external was set up last summer by the then-health secretary, Wes Streeting. The aim to was produce a report to drive through improvements across England after a series of maternity scandals undermined the trust of many families in the NHS. Baroness Amos and her team heard from more than…
The painful familiarity of key themes in Donna Ockenden’s review of maternity care failures must not detract from the urgency around this issue. The 400-page report published on Wednesday is a shocking catalogue of what went wrong at Nottingham university hospitals NHS trust. Its contents range from a excruciating case study of the errors leading…
During the press conference, Jack called for a statutory public inquiry. Meanwhile, Health Secretary James Murray said “no options are off the table” when questioned on the issue in the House of Commons. Murray, who met families taking part in the maternity review last week, had been addressing Ockenden’s report, which he said contained revelations…
The long-awaited report into maternity failures at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust (NUH), the largest investigation of its kind involving about 2,500 families, will be published later this week. Led by the senior midwife Donna Ockenden, the inquiry investigated stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal deaths and babies or mothers who suffered brain damage and other injuries…
What a weekend for sports fans, huh? Between the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicking off and the New York Knicks becoming NBA champions, there was some serious state-hopping excitement. Even celebrities could not help but get right in the middle of all the action: ardent fans Timothée Chalamet and Spike Lee sat courtside at the…
