The UK “doesn’t have the luxury of waiting six months” for an action plan for maternity care, a senior midwife has warned, after publishing several damning enquiries that revealed dismissive attitudes to women which contributed to avoidable deaths.
Baroness Valerie Amos, who led the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, made a key request for a neonatal and maternity commissioner and a national taskforce, after exposing repeated failures in NHS care. The government is now due to publish a comprehensive National Action Plan in December to overhaul services.
