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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Voices: Every woman should feel safe in an NHS maternity ward

What has gone wrong with maternity and neonatal care? It is a question that, even after numerous high-profile cases of failure and the sometimes life-changing experiences of many thousands of mothers and their children, remains frustratingly unclear.

It is not the case that care for mothers and babies is uniformly bad, but neither is it the case that really poor results are sufficiently rare to be treated as exceptional.

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