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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Tara Cobham

Streeting orders national investigation into scandal-hit maternity services as he warns of ‘crisis’ in NHS care

Health secretary Wes Streeting has launched a national investigation into NHS maternity services after a string of scandals exposed a “crisis” in care.

The new rapid investigation will look at “systemic” failures in maternity and neo-natal units “up and down the country”, which are leaving women and babies at a “considerably higher” risk than they should be.

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