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Experts will review the safety of maternity services across the NHS in a bid to reduce harm to babies.
They hope to establish the best ways of spotting warning signs of tots in distress so doctors can intervene sooner.
It follows a series of high-profile scandals in which mothers and babies have died or been left with severe disabilities.
The Department of Health will give £2 million to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in order for experts to review the safety of maternity services across the NHS. (Stock image)
The Department of Health will give £2 million to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) to lead the first phase of the study.
4 July 2021
In collaboration with the Royal College of Midwives and The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute at the University of Cambridge, £2 million will be used by Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) to test the best ways to spot early warning signs of babies in distress
£449,000 will go towards developing a new workforce planning tool for maternity medics to make sure patients get the medical support they need
Today (4 July), maternity safety minister Nadine Dorries is announcing £2.45 million funding which will benefit NHS maternity staff and improve the safety of the women and babies they care for.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is awarding the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) almost £2 million to lead the first phase of the Avoiding Brain injuries in Childbirth (ABC) Collaboration.
A series of fatal failings in maternity care is evidence of a systemic problem within the NHS
Some midwives and institutions have pursued an ideology of ânormal birthâ at âpretty much any costâ. Photograph: UK Stock Images Ltd/Alamy
Some midwives and institutions have pursued an ideology of ânormal birthâ at âpretty much any costâ. Photograph: UK Stock Images Ltd/Alamy
Sun 4 Jul 2021 04.00 EDT
Giving birth used to be one of the most dangerous things a woman could do. In parts of 15th-century Europe, women wrote wills as soon as they knew they were pregnant. In the 17th and 18th centuries, around one in 25 women died in childbirth. It was a danger that cut right across class, from queens to domestic servants, and one that women had to face over and over again. For their babies, the risks were even higher.
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