Quality and performance

Maternity services isolated from trust boards, watchdog warns

By 2025-08-19T04:49:00

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The safety watchdog has raised fresh concerns about NHS maternity services in a new review, warning that harm has been normalised within units that are working “in parallel” to trusts.

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