All Maternity articles – Page 8
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NewsHuge drop in midwives’ morale amid Ockenden fallout
There has been a dramatic fall in morale among midwives across multiple measures within the NHS staff survey.
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CommentThe NHS is still not learning from past mistakes in maternity
In the light of the Ockenden report, James Titcombe and Nadine Montgomery share their stories of maternity care failings and what is not yet being done to prevent them happening again.
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HSJ LocalCQC downgrade leaves teaching trust CEO feeling ‘devastated’
A major teaching trust has been rated ‘inadequate’ for safety, after an unannounced inspection found senior leaders did not intervene quickly enough to address patient care issues.
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News‘Ideologically driven’ NHSE maternity model causing national tension
A policy ‘at the heart’ of NHS England’s efforts to improve maternity care is under question after being sharply criticised by an independent inquiry, and is the subject of major tensions within NHSE and midwifery, HSJ understands.
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NewsScandal inquiry issues 15 actions for trusts nationally
Repeated care and governance failures were routinely ignored by a hospital trust where poor maternity care resulted in almost 300 avoidable baby deaths or brain damage cases, the most damning review of maternity services in the NHS’s history finds today.
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CommentProgress on reducing smoking during pregnancy has stalled, here’s what must be done
Reducing the number of women who smoked during pregnancy was a priority area in the government’s 2017 Tobacco Control Plan but as the five-year deadline approaches, progress has stalled. Asthma + Lung UK’s CEO Sarah Woolnough says the government must redouble its efforts to ensure that every child gets a ...
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NewsNeonatal units face ‘redesignation’ under national shake-up
A major shake-up of neonatal care, aimed at reducing mortality and illness, could see dozens of units restricted to caring for less premature babies.
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News‘Rasputin-like’ characters dominated safety watchdog
The leadership of a national watchdog was dominated by ‘Rasputin-like’ characters and displayed many of the bullying behaviours it was set up to help prevent in the NHS, according to multiple former staff.
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NewsNew national body to take powers from scandal-hit watchdog
The health secretary has announced a new national body to carry out ‘independent’ and ‘family-focused’ investigations of maternity services.
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NewsNHSE warns of significant variation in pregnant women’s vaccination uptake
An NHS England letter has warned of “significant variation” in the uptake of the covid-19 vaccine amongst pregnant women, and called on systems to enable more “spontaneous” antenatal vaccination.
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News‘Babies at risk’ as NHS faces losing nearly one in 10 midwives over mandatory jabs
The NHS could be forced to dismiss almost 2,000 midwives by the government’s mandatory vaccination policy, amid warnings from a former chief nurse of England that mothers and babies will be put at risk.
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NewsCEO of ‘outstanding’ trust makes switch to maternity scandal provider
The chief executive of an ‘outstanding’ London trust is to move to one of the most troubled trusts in the country.
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NewsTrust keeps ‘outstanding’ rating despite not listening ‘enough’ to staff concerns
The Care Quality Commission has rated the surgery and maternity departments at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton ‘inadequate’ following concerns over lifesaving emergency surgery being delayed and pregnant women waiting up to six hours to be assessed by a doctor.
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NewsExclusive: Police drop manslaughter investigation into trust
A trust will not face a second prosecution over the death of a baby seven days after a chaotic birth at one of its hospitals, unless new evidence emerges.
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NewsParents and babies turned away from ‘exceptionally busy’ unit
Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust was forced to limit access to neonatal intensive care at the weekend due to exceptional demand.
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NewsThree trusts fall back into ‘improvement programme’
Three trusts whose struggling maternity departments were supported and supposedly improved by a national safety programme have since fallen back into the scheme.
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NewsRoutine NHS care may have ‘adverse effect’ on Black and Asian babies
NHS equality experts have ordered a review of neonatal care over concerns that babies from Black and Asian backgrounds are ‘adversely affected’ by routine methods.
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NewsCQC criticises care scandal trust for 'unsafe staffing'
The trust at the centre of a maternity scandal does not have enough midwifery staff to keep women and babies safe, a Care Quality Commission inspection has revealed.
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NewsTrusts receive half of funding for ‘essential’ maternity improvements
Trusts have so far received just over half of the £102m they said was needed for ‘immediate and essential’ improvements in maternity services.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Attacks on managers go beyond the boardroom
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.