Damning report on England maternity care ‘watershed moment’, health secretary says

Lady Amos concluded that for many women ‘the care they receive is not good enough and can result in avoidable harm’. Photograph: Halfpoint Images/Getty Images

Valerie Amos’s devastating indictment of maternity care has to be a “watershed moment” for how the NHS treats pregnant women and babies, the health secretary has said.

James Murray pledged that Lady Amos’s report would lead to significant improvements and that “toxic dynamics” which damage relationships between hospital staff providing childbirth care would be dismantled.