Two thirds of maternity units in England 'not safe enough'

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ArthurbellaScott · 16/11/2023 15:29

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67238868

This is horrifying.

Content warning in the article link, baby death

'BBC analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) records showed it deemed two-thirds (67%) of them not to be safe enough, up from 55% last autumn.
The "deterioration" follows efforts to improve NHS maternity care, and is blamed partly on a midwife shortage.
The government said maternity care was of the "utmost importance".
The Department for Heath and Social Care (DHSC) said £165m a year was being invested in boosting the maternity workforce, but said "we know there is more to do".
The BBC's analysis also revealed the proportion of maternity units with the poorest safety ranking of "inadequate" - meaning that there is a high risk of avoidable harm to mother or baby - has more than doubled from 7% to 15% since September 2022.'

Most NHS maternity units not safe enough, says regulator

The NHS watchdog says the findings are the worst in England since focused inspections began in 2018.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67238868

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DworkinWasRight · 17/11/2023 07:09

All CQC reports are online. Here’s the one for Morecambe Bay - it’s the whole trust, but maternity is in there somewhere:
https://api.cqc.org.uk/public/v1/reports/3e8d4507-2081-4851-83e5-ef2064053765?20230823070213

https://api.cqc.org.uk/public/v1/reports/3e8d4507-2081-4851-83e5-ef2064053765?20230823070213

CyberCritical · 17/11/2023 06:56

Is there any way to see the actual reports? I'd be interested to understand in what way they are considered unsafe, is it the medical interventions or the care?

When I had DD 9 yrs ago, the post natal care was lacking, I was basically just left to it. I had to hobble from the delivery room to the ward pushing her little cot,on the ward there was no help all through the night, other people's partners/ husbands wandering about, being noisy. In the morning they just pointed to the kitchen and we had to make our own breakfast. No help watching baby while you went to the loo or got cleaned up, no support with breast feeding. It was like being in a crappy mixed sex hostel.

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ArthurbellaScott · 17/11/2023 06:44

Scotland appear not to have bothered investigating at all.

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TooBigForMyBoots · 17/11/2023 02:45

Maternity care in NI is fucked too.

Not because of diversity training or trans stuff. Because of a diminished NHS with demoralised, burnt out staff. It's happening because women, be they patients or HCPs, are considered unimportant.

stealtheatingtunnocks · 17/11/2023 02:22

its hard to not conclude that maybe midwifery courses should spend less time teaching students how to catheterise a penis and more time on actual clinical skills.

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ArthurbellaScott · 16/11/2023 16:29

Well, yes. The amount they are willing to piss away on absolute bollocks, while failing to actually fund the necessary staff, is quite stark.

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MrsOvertonsWindow · 16/11/2023 16:17

Shocking. But not surprising.
The NHS's complete failure to address this is shameful. They'll throw money at pointless D & I initiatives & staff, divert precious staff time away from tackling this to debate pronouns & mangle the language of women's health care & spend a seemingly endless budget on conferences & courses that have zero impact on maternity services. There are resources in the system that could be diverted to fund equipment & staff - but the safety of woman and babies in just not on their agenda.
They know what they need to do to tackle this - they just can't be arsed.

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