https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgvl8l5q0xo
This is MN.
And there seems to be a total indifference and acceptance to maternity care being completely substandard in this country?
Why aren't we completely enraged by this on MN?
Why have we become so passive and why have we rolled over with a seeming attitude that we should almost just deal with it and its not worth complaining anymore?
65% of maternity services in england were judged to be failing. 65%
Why are we not putting pressure for this to be a much higher priority.
The cost to the public sector from compensation related to maternity services is astronomical. It makes up 60% of all negligence claims. This is billions of pounds just on compensation.
This doesn't include the billions spend on care as a result of those harms to women and children.
This is something like £8.2 billion in the year 2021/22. ONE YEAR.
We keep talking about cuts and budget blackholes, but this makes no sense. A lack of investiment in adequate services is costing us billions per year. Savings that COULD be made with better care.
Why isn't this a priority, and why isn't there more women on MN standing up and saying this absoleutely isn't ok? There's plenty of threads about immigration or wars or private schools etc all the time. But maternity services? Tumbleweed.
MNHQ has run a campaign on post-natal care in the past and the situation seems to be getting worse not better. Its dreadful.
So yeah.
Here's a thread to shout about how bad it is. Cos I'm really pissed off. No one seems to be listening.