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A culmination of challenges is leading to a widespread drought, from hospitals closing to services being removed.

To deal with problems beyond their abilities, worn out at the end of their shift, and supervised by people they thought were incompetent. this maternity expert says a lack of staff is hampering care but that hospitals across the country could do more with the people they have. failure to escalate concerns, failure to manage things when things go wrong, those are things that could actually be improved with the right training. and we're not seeing that on the front line. tomorrow's report will look at maternity problems at the trust between 2009 and 2020. more than 200 families have spoken to th...

The family say the student midwife should never have been in that position, but the evidence we've seen suggests it's not a rare occurrence. a uk—wide survey of trainee doctors in maternity care paints a damning picture of the trust, particularly another hospital it runs, the william harvey. in comparison to the uk average, trainees at the hospital say they were far more likely to be forced to deal with problems beyond their abilities, worn out at the end of their shift, and supervised by people they thought were incompetent. this maternity expert says a lack of staff is hampering care but t...

But today, sarah and tom richford came to court to hear the nhs trust that failed them receive a record fine. their son harry died in 2017 after a catastrophic series of errors in maternity care. at folkestone magistrates' court, the east kent hospitals trust was fined a record £733,000 forfailing to provide safe care and treatment to both harry and sarah. sadly, both individual and systemic errors are pushed aside for many years with no learning taking place. this failure to learn has led to the significant failings witnessed in harry's death, and no doubt countless others which are now bein...

Was fined a record £733,000 forfailing to provide safe care and treatment to both harry and sarah. sadly, both individual and systemic errors are pushed aside for many years with no learning taking place. this failure to learn has led to the significant failings witnessed in harry's death, and no doubt countless others which are now being investigated. before harry richford's death, maternity problems were mounting. in 201a, the trust investigated eight neonatal deaths in just eight months. in 2015, an external review found maternity consultants didn't carry out ward rounds or review women. i...