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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Athena Stavrou and Holly Evans

Dirty wards, women bleeding in bathrooms and avoidable baby deaths: Maternity probe head blasts ‘unacceptable care’

Women were left to “bleed out” in bathrooms and babies suffered avoidable deaths in NHS maternity units, a damning review has found.

Changes within maternity care have been “too slow” despite being necessary and urgent, the head of an investigation into maternity care in England has said.

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