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Becky Talbot, one of the organisers of last autumn’s March With Midwives protests told us: “Every single case in this [Ockenden] report [on Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust] is heart-breaking and appalling. Put them together and it’s a huge disaster. It’s particularly bad, but it’s not something separable from the wider crisis in maternity services and the NHS.
Becky Talbot, one of the organisers of last autumn’s March With Midwives protests told us: “Every single case in this [Ockenden] report [on Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust] is heart-breaking and appalling. Put them together and it’s a huge disaster. It’s particularly bad, but it’s not something separable from the wider crisis in maternity services and the NHS.
Becky Talbot is a doula – an independent birth worker – in Cambridge who was central to initiating the protests by midwives and birth workers across the country on 21 November. She spoke to Sacha Ismail.