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

Mothers and babies being put at risk due to unsafe NHS maternity services, report says

The entrance to the maternity unit of the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother hospital in Margate, Kent, part of the East Kent Hospitals University NHS foundation trust
Dozens of babies and mothers died or were injured during childbirth because of repeated failings in maternity care at the East Kent hospitals trust, including at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother hospital in Margate, a report found. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

Mothers and babies are being put at risk because maternity services are still providing unsafe care, despite a series of scandals that have cost lives, the NHS ombudsman has warned.

More tragedies will occur unless the health service takes decisive action to put an end to repeated and deeply ingrained problems which lead to “the same mistakes over and over again”, he said.

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