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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Jeremy Hunt urges medics to do more to improve detection of rare childbirth condition

Amisha and Nik Adhia with their baby.
Amisha Adhia, along with her husband Nik, launched the campaign after five hospitals failed to spot she had placenta accreta spectrum. Photograph: supplied

Jeremy Hunt has urged leading doctors to do more to help maternity specialists detect a rare complication of childbirth that can lead to a women bleeding to death within minutes.

The former health secretary has thrown his weight behind a new campaign, aimed at improving the NHS’s identification of placenta accreta spectrum. The Action for Accreta campaign was set up by Amisha Adhia and her husband, Nik, after five hospitals failed to spot that she had PAS.

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