Black and Asian women face “unacceptable racism”, patients have been left lying in pain, and a mother was told she was “too fat to have children”, a damning review exposing failures in NHS maternity units has found.
A national maternity and neonatal investigation (NMNI), led by Baroness Valerie Amos, found staff shortages, capacity issues, racism and discrimination and lack of accountability when things go wrong meant women and babies across the country were being failed.
